SS Ch 6 Lesson C 5th grade

Choose all that correctly help summarize the Great Compromise.

• In the Senate, each state would have four delegates, which preserved equality among the states.

• The Great Compromise addressed both the larger states’ demand for majority rule and the smaller states’ demand for equality by creating a two-house legislature,

• In the House of Representatives, representation was determined by population, which preserved majority rule.

• It is composed of a House of Representatives and a Senate.

Which statement best explains why the Three-Fifths Compromise was necessary in reaching agreement on the Constitution?

• It was necessary because the Southern states wanted to deny all political power to enslaved people.

• It was necessary because the Southern states wanted to continue participating in international slave trade.

• It was necessary because the Southern states would not join the new government if Congress might end slavery.

• It was necessary because many delegates to the Constitutional convention from the Southern states were slave owners.

What two sentences from the text support the correct response to the previous question?

• “Many of the delegates at the Constitutional Convention owned plantations with slaves.”

• “Since the slaves didn’t have any political power of their own, those extra votes would go to their masters.”

• “Without those extra votes, there was a good chance that Congress would outlaw slavery.”

• “Thus, the delegates decided that slaves would be counted, but for less than free persons.”

• “The Southern states also agreed to stop future trading with other countries for slaves in 1808.”

What does democracy mean?

• law should be agreed on by the majority of people, not just a small group of rulers.

• law should be agreed on by just a small group of rulers, not by the majority of people.

• One ruler, like a king or queen, makes all the laws.

• No laws can be made unless every single person in the nation agrees on them.

Why did the Southern states agree they would stop trading with other countries for enslaved Africans in 1808? (choose all tht apply)

• It was a compromise.

• The Southern states were afraid Congress would end slavery.

• They did not need slaves any more.

• They were at war with the countries that enslaved and traded slaves.

Match the following

• Roger Sherman

• Championed the Virginia Plan

• George Washington

• Served as the President of the Constitutional Convention

• William Peterson

• Proposed the Great Compromise

• James Madison

• Created the New Jersey Plan