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The Great Compromise Explained in 5 Minutes: US History Review

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Constitutional Convention, (1787), in U.S. history, convention that drew up the Constitution of the United States. Stimulated by severe economic troubles, which produced radical political movements such as Shays's Rebellion, and urged on by a demand for a stronger central government, the convention met in the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia (May 25-September 17, 1787), ostensibly to amend the Articles of Confederation. All the states except Rhode Island responded to an invitation issued by the Annapolis Convention of 1786 to send delegates. Of the 74 deputies chosen by the state legislatures, only 55 took part in the proceedings; of these, 39 signed the Constitution. The delegates included many of the leading figures of the period. Among them were George Washington, who was elected to preside, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, James Wilson, John Rutledge, Charles Pinckney, Oliver Ellsworth, and Gouverneur Morris.
(Read John Kennedy's Britannica entry on Oliver Ellsworth.)
Discarding the idea of amending the Articles of Confederation, the assembly set about drawing up a new scheme of government but found itself divided, delegates from small states (those without claims to unoccupied western lands) opposing those from large states over the apportionment of representation. Edmund Randolph offered a plan known as the Virginia, or large state, plan, which provided for a bicameral legislature with representation of each state based on its population or wealth. William Paterson proposed the New Jersey, or small state, plan, which provided for equal representation in Congress. Neither the large nor the small states would yield. Oliver Ellsworth and Roger Sherman, among others, in what is sometimes called the Connecticut, or Great, Compromise, proposed a bicameral legislature with proportional representation in the lower house and equal representation of the states in the upper house. All revenue measures would originate in the lower house. That compromise was approved July 16.

The matter of counting slaves in the population for figuring representation was settled by a compromise agreement that three-fifths of the slaves should be counted as population in apportioning representation and should also be counted as property in assessing taxes. Controversy over the abolition of the importation of slaves ended with the agreement that importation should not be forbidden before 1808. The powers of the federal executive and judiciary were enumerated, and the Constitution was itself declared to be the "supreme law of the land." The convention's work was approved by a majority of the states the following year.

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Constitutional Convention | History & Compromises

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Constitutional Convention, convention that drew up the U.S. Constitution. Stimulated by severe economic troubles, which produced radical political movements such as Shays's Rebellion, the convention met in Philadelphia (May 25-September 17, 1787), ostensibly to amend the Articles of Confederation.

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The Three-Fifths Compromise Explained: US History Review

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The Federalists wanted a strong central or National government, a constitution,no bill of rights, and Alexander Hamilton is the Leader.The Anti-Federalists wanted a strong state government,a bill of rights but they were against the constitution,and their leader was George Madison.

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North wanted to control trade but the South worried it would hurt their economy.The Commerce Compromise solved the issue,North agreed to wait 20 years to ban slavery.

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The Southern states plan wanted to count slaves as part of population for representation but not for taxation.While the Northern Plan wanted to allow slaves to be counted for taxation but not representation.The 3/5 Compromise solved the dispute over how to count slaves. Slaves count as 3/5 of a person for representation and taxation purposes.

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The issue was deciding how many representatives each state would get in the new congress.The Virginia plan wanted representation based on state population.The New Jersey Plan instead they wanted equal representation for each state. In the end The Great Compromise solved the dispute over representation in congress. It consisted of 2 houses of congress 1 was senate and the other was house of representation

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The constitutional convention was  in 1787 and its were the constitution was written. It was written in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania.There were 55 delegates who attended the convention. The purpose of it was to amend the Articles of Confederation.