Which statement about the northern states in the 1780s is accurate?
The men sent to the Constitutional Convention to represent their states were best known as
Read the excerpt from Robert Yates’s notes from the Constitutional Convention on June 11, 1787.Mr. Wilson was of opinion, and therefore moved, that the mode of representation of each of the States ought to be from the number of its free inhabitants, and of every other description three fifths to one free inhabitant.
What was the primary way the farms in the South differed from those in the North?
The Constitution was a result of multiple
In what part of the Great Compromise are the ideas of the Virginia Plan represented?
Which of these was not a key difference between Northern and Southern states at the Constitutional Convention?
What was the most debated subject between large and small states during the Constitutional Convention?
Read the excerpt from James Madison’s notes on the Constitutional Convention from July 14, 1787.Mr. SHERMAN urged the equality of votes [in the Senate] not so much as a security for the small States; as for the State Govts. which could not be preserved unless they were represented & had a negative in the Genl. Government. He had no objection to the members in the [House] voting per capita, as had been suggested by [Mr. Gerry].
The New Jersey Plan supported the idea of
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