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Describe the two major compromises made at the Constituional Convention: the Great Compromise and the 3/5ths Compromise. Who was involved? What did they want? How did they compromise? Please be specific
The two main compromises were the Great Compromise and the 3/5 Compromise.
The Great Compromise created a bicameral legislature. It created the House of Representatives, in which the representation of the states depended on their population, and the Senate, in which each state had an equal number of representatives.
The 3/5 compromise was a pragmatic compromise to balance popular interests between state, free and slave populations in the newly formed federal government. Specifically, population was a way of determining how to apportion federal representatives, electors, and taxes.