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What Great Compromise established?
A two-house (bicameral) federal legislature made up of an upper and lower house.
What did the great compromise established?
A two-house (bicameral) federal legislature made up of an upper and lower house.
What was the agreement called that created the Senate and House of Representatives?
The agreement was called The Great Compromise. It called for the lower house of Congress, the House of Representatives, to be elected on the basis of population of the states and that all revenue bills would have to originate there. The upper house of Congress, the Senate would be elected on an equal basis among the states, two per state regardless of population. It had at one time also been known as the Connecticut Compromise since it had been proposed by Connecticut delegate Roger Sherman.
What is the definition for Great compromise?
It was an agreement between large and small states and a two house legislature.
Was The conflict between slave and free states resolved by the great compromise?
The compromise between slave states and free states was resolved by the 3/5ths Compromise. The southern states wanted to have slaves count as part of the population. The free states did not. They eventually agreed that the 3 out of every 5 slaves would be counted. The Great Compromise was when the legislature was agreed to be made of 2 houses, one upper and one lower. The upper house would have equal representation and the lower would be have the states represented by population.
What describes the Great Compromise?
The "Great Compromise" was the establishment of a Senate and House of Representatives. To please the smaller states they gave them a Senate. Each state had two Senators. The House of Representatives satisfied the larger states. Representatives are assigned based on population.
What was the great compromise is conflicting ideas?
Each state, regardless of its size would have two representatives in the senate, or upper house. The agreement to create a two-house legislature.
Under the Connecticut Compromise where did states have equal representation?
Upper house A+
What was the great compromise at Philadelphia convention?
Congress was divided into two houses. The senate (upper house) was seated equally by state; the House of Representatives (lower house) was seated by population.
What was the Great Compromise at the Constitutional Conventioning?
Congress was divided into two houses. The senate (upper house) was seated equally by state; the House of Representatives (lower house) was seated by population.
How old is the Great Compromise?
The Great Compromise occurred in the US Constitutional Convention of 1787, about 230 years ago. It established the bicameral (two-house) legislature of the US Congress, wherein the lower House of Representatives is constituted according to population while the upper house provides equal representation (2 senators) for each state.
What document proposed a two-house legislature with the upper house having equal representation for each state.?
Connecticut compromise
