U3 Review: Compromises

Based on the excerpt, how did the Great Compromise help create this governmental structure?

• By settling issues over voting rights in the North.

• By settling the issues between over taxation.

• By settling issues between the Federalists & Anti-Federalists.

• By settling the issues between large & small states.

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Why was this congressional structure created by the framers of the Constitution?

• To follow the plan outlined in the Articles of Confederation.

• To reach a compromise between slave states and non-slave states.

• To reach a compromise between large and small states.

• To implement the outcome of a popular vote.

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The Great Compromise addressed disagreements over federal representation by –

• creating a bicameral legislature.

• giving veto power to the executive.

• enumerating the powers of the central government.

• establishing three branches of government.

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Why were Southern representatives to the Constitutional Convention willing to

accept the Three-Fifths Compromise?

• It increased the political influence of the South.

• It decreased the federal tax on property in the South.

• It allowed indentured servants in the South to become citizens.

• It allowed the South to expand its industrial output.

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Why did the Constitutional Convention agree to

the 3/5ths Compromise?

• To settle debates over the issue of counting enslaved people for representation.

• To create a government based on the principle of Federalism.

• To settle debates over the issue of abolishing the importation of enslaved people.

• To create a government with a bicameral legislature.

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What was the 3/5ths Compromise & why was the South willing to accept it?

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