Congressional Compromises

The Virginia Plan (the BIG state plan) was the idea that the number of delegates a state had in Congress would be based on a state's (a)   .

The New Jersey Plan (the SMALL state plan) was the idea that the number of delegates a state had in Congress would be the (a)   for all states, regardless of population.

In your own words, what is a compromise?

(a)   means a 2 house legislature.

What two major slaveholding states wanted to count slaves as part of their population numbers for Congress?

• New York and Virginia

• Maryland and South Carolina

• South Carolina & Virginia

• New Hampshire and New York

How were slaves defined in the Constitution?

• "Three-fifths of all other persons"

• Indentured servants

• Fellow non-whites

• Persona non grata

What was the U.S. government basically saying about black people who were enslaved at the time?

What was now permanently embedded into the Constitution (at least until the 13th Amendment)?

• Virginia Foxx's life term as a representative

• Life Imprisonment

• Taxes

• Slavery