1. NOTES-CHECK #s 1–5 YESTERDAY
September 27, 2018
U.S. History Agenda:
DO NOW: Multiple Choice Review
NOTES #6: What major compromises were adopted at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
CLASS ACTIVITY: State Representation in Congress
NOTES-CHECK #s 1–5 YESTERDAY

2. What major compromises were adopted at the Constitutional Convention of 1787? Notes #6

3. At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, a major conflict centered on the issue of determining the basis for state representation in Congress.

4. The Great Compromise was adopted to solve the conflict over state representation in Congress by creating a bicameral legislature.
Oliver Ellsworth
Roger Sherman

5. The Great Compromise gave each state two senators (in the Senate) . . .

6. . . . and a number of representatives (in the House of Representatives) based on population.

7. Total representatives in Congress for each state

8. U.S. congressional districts (435 total)

9. New York state congressional districts (27 total)

10. The requirement of a census every ten years was included in the U. S
The requirement of a census every ten years was included in the U.S. Constitution to determine state representation in Congress.

11. Congressional districts Congressional districts
in 2012 
Congressional districts
in 2013 

12. New York state congressional districts (29) in 2012

13. New York state congressional districts (27) in 2013

14. congressional districts (29) congressional districts (27)
New York state
congressional districts (29)
 in 2012
New York state
congressional districts (27)
in 2013 

16. The Three-Fifths Compromise was adopted to determine representation in Congress for states with large slave populations (by counting a slave as three-fifths of a person).

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