The Great Compromise

This plan called for a unicameral legislature in which each State would be equally represented

• Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise

• Connecticut Compromise

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

Bicameral means one house

• True

• False

An agreement that Congress should be composed of a Senate, with States represented equally, and a House, with representation based on a State’s population...

• Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise

• Great Compromise

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

called for a bicameral legislature with representation based on population... 

• Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise
• Connecticut Compromise
• New Jersey Plan
• Virginia Plan

Which leader is known as “The Father of the Constitution”?

• James Madison
• Thomas Jefferson
• John Adams
• George Washington

What was the main difference between the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan?

• One called for two branches of government and one for three

• the number of branches of the federal government

• the method for electing members of the two houses of Congress

• the number of representatives in Congress each state would have

The New Jersey Plan wanted representation in government based on--

• population
• equality for every state
• state size
• money

Who was happy with the Virginia plan?

• Small States

• Large States

• States with slaves

• States without slaves

The Great compromise said that the ______ would have two representatives from each state

• House of Representatives
• Presidency
• Judges 
• Senate

A system in which the limits are placed on the branches of government, so no one branch becomes too powerful; also known as separation of powers

• Ratification

• Federal system

• Amendment

• Checks and Balances