1. As you enter the room…
Please pick up all the papers from the front of the room
Please get a History text book from the shelf by the window at the back of the room
Review the Calling of the Constitutional Convention reading

2. The Constitutional Convention

3. Virginia Plan New Jersey Plan

4. Their Similarities Give Congress power to tax and regulate trade
Add an executive and judicial branch

5. The Virginia Plan Proposed by Edmund Randolph (VA)
Bicameral legislature = 2 houses
Representation based on population
Give more power to national government
National government could veto state laws
Preferred by larger states

6. The New Jersey Plan Proposed by William Paterson (NJ)
Unicameral legislature = 1 house
Equal voting (1 vote/state)
Give more power to the states
Preferred by smaller states

8. The Great Compromise A 2-house legislature was created
1st house  SENATE
Representation based on equality
2nd house  HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Representation based on population

10. The Three-Fifths Compromise
Northern states  NO
Southern states  YES
Decision: 3/5ths of a state’s slave population would count toward total population
EXAMPLE: South Carolina
10,000 non-slaves
10,000 slaves
TOTAL POPULATION = 16,000 people