1. Focus Question: How did delegates compromise on the conflicts they faced at the Constitutional Convention?
HW:
p. 43 & 46 in packet.

2. Focus Question: How did delegates compromise on the conflicts they faced at the Constitutional Convention?
Do Now:
I have plans with my friend Stacey this weekend and we’ve been debating over what to do. She wants to go to the movies but I want to stay home and work on my paper. What would be a good compromise? Compromise (n.): agreement, a settlement of a dispute in which two or more sides agree to accept less than they originally wanted

3. “….when you assemble a number of men, to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected? It therefore astonishes me, Sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does."
-Benjamin Franklin, at age 81, at the Constitutional Convention, 1787

5. Slave Trade Compromise
Slavery would be allowed until 1808, but slave traders would be taxed up to $10 per slave.

6. 3/5ths Compromise
3/5ths of enslaved people’s bodies would be counted in the population number during the census to determine the number of representatives in the House of Representatives.

7. Exit Ticket: Compromise in 140 Characters
For each debate, choose 1 side and tweet from their perspective. Your tweet should indicate what your side WANTED AND DIDN’T GET and WHAT THEY ARE HAPPY THEY GOT.
Vanessa: Let's hang out at the movies
Me:
Let's hang out at my house
Compromise:
@Vanessa I wanted to go to the movies but I’m happy we will be watching a movie at her house. #Tuesday Night