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.
Which statement about the northern states in the 1780s is accurate?
What was the primary way the farms in the South differed from those in the North?
Which statement about the delegates at the Constitutional Convention is accurate?
The men sent to the Constitutional Convention to represent their states were best known as
According to the 1790 census, where did most enslaved people live?
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].
Why did the Great Compromise and the Three-Fifths Compromise involve so much debate and discussion at the Constitutional Convention?
The New Jersey Plan supported the idea of
Which statement about the Great Compromise is accurate?
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