What was the Great Compromise at the Constitutional Convention?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: C. A two-house Congress: equal votes in the Senate, seats by population in the House
- Step 1: Large and small states disagreed about representation. Step 2. The solution combined both plans. Answer: a two-house Congress with equal and proportional representation. Why not the others: Judicial review over executive actions was established later in Marbury v. Madison; states' rights doctrine was championed by the Anti-Federalists; and direct popular election of senators was enacted via the Seventeenth Amendment.
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- Which factor most directly caused the American colonists to unite in protest against British policies after 1763?
- The Proclamation of 1763 forbade colonists from doing what?
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- What was a major weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
- Shays' Rebellion of 1786 to 1787 contributed to the movement for a new Constitution because it showed what?
- Why did Anti-Federalists oppose ratification of the Constitution?