The Great Compromise and Related Issues

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What did the big states want in the Great Compromise?

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Representation based on population

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What did the little states want in the Great Compromise?

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Equal representation

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Who proposed the compromise for representation in the two-house legislature?

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Roger Sherman

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In the Three-Fifths Compromise, what did the southern states want?

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To count enslaved people fully

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What did the northern states want regarding the counting of enslaved people?

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Not to count them

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What was agreed upon in the Three-Fifths Compromise?

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Three-fifths of enslaved people would be counted

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What did the southern states want regarding the slave trade?

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To continue the importation of slaves

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What did the northern states want regarding the slave trade?

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To ban the sale of enslaved people

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What was the compromise regarding the slave trade?

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Congress could not stop the slave trade for at least 20 years but after the 20 years passed they could.

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What did most delegates to the Convention think about a Bill of Rights?

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It was impossible to list all natural rights of people.