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Which statement about the Virginia Plan is accurate?

It called for a unicameral legislature.

It supported the interests of the smaller states.

It proposed an executive staff instead of a single executive.

It inspired the creation of the New Jersey Plan.

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Once the delegates settled the Great Compromise, what issue did they tackle next?

the New Jersey Plan

the Virginia Plan

the Electoral process for the presidency

the Three-Fifths Compromise

How did the issue of slavery affect the debate on representation at the Constitutional Convention?

Both regions recognized that how enslaved people were counted would significantly affect representation.

The northern states were convinced that enslaved people should be included fully as a part of the population.

The southern states knew counting enslaved people as part of the population would damage their governmental position.

Neither region wanted the enslaved people counted as part of the population because it would skew their representation.

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.

established equal representation in Congress regardless of a state’s population.

established proportional representation in Congress for both large and small states.

established that a state’s enslaved population would be counted for partial representation.

established that slavery would be outlawed within twenty years of the Constitution’s ratification.

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