COMPROMISING
What was the a 1787 agreement during the U.S. Constitutional Convention that created a two-house (bicameral) Congress balancing the interests of large and small states?
The Connecticut Compromise
What are the two chambers that were created from the Connecticut Compromise?
The Senate and the House of Representatives
The 1788 agreement that saved the U.S. Constitution by allowing this state to ratify it while simultaneously recommending a Bill of Rights
The Massachusetts Compromise
What was the 1787 agreement at the United States Constitutional Convention that decided how enslaved people would be counted when calculating a state's total population.
3/5 Compromise
Why would the Southern States favor this compromise?
The compromise gave Southern slaveholding states extra political power in the House of Representatives and the Electoral College, helping protect pro-slavery interests for decades until the Civil War.