Please respond to the post before Saturday, January 22, midnight
1- Why did the Constitution replace the Articles of Confederation?
2- Why were the Ordinances of 1784 and 1785 helpful in the development of the West?
3-Explain the "Great Compromise" and it's importance?
The “Great Compromise” was a convention that was run by Benjamin Franklin. It was made for a two-house legislature. In the lower house, it was based more on population. This is where the slaves would be counted as three fifths of a free person. This is how they would determine the votes for both representation and taxation. The upper house would be based equally on two members apiece. The convention finally accepted the compromise on July 16, 1787. Even with this compromise people started to worry, because they were scared this compromise would interfere with slavery. Because of this they agreed to bar the government from stopping slave trade within the next twenty years. This compromise was important because it gave America a solution to the problem of representation. With the “Great Compromise” it led to our current government we have today.
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2nd perios (:
The Ordinances of 1784 and 1785 helped develop the landscape in the western part of America. When the ordinance of 1784 was made the western territory was divided into ten self-governing districts. The confederation had to create a way to include the Northwest territory in the political structure of the new nation and that was the solution. Congress later created the Ordinance of 1785 which was a system for selling and surveying the western territories. It shaped the landscape so it was in a precise rectangular pattern or a grid. This layout was used in many other American cities. One reason it was better than the original ordinances was because it made it easier to distinguish property borders, unlike the more informal land systems that were previously made. Development of land in the west sped up making land ownership more simple and it was better understood. Even though the Ordinance had a few downfalls it was still effective in its purpose.
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2nd Period
The Great compromise was a document that included a little bit of this, and a little bit of that. This document compromised both the wants from the states with bigger population sizes and the wants of the states with smaller population sizes. The States with the higher population felt a need for the number of representatives for each state, to depend on how many people lived in that state. Those who lived in the smaller populated states wanted everyone to have an equal amount of representatives no matter how high your population is. This document is a great example of what a compromise is. It has a little bit from what everyone wants in it.
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3. The Great Compromise was a compromise for the large and little states. The large states wanted as many representatives as there was population, which obviously wasn't fair for the smaller states. The smaller states wanted there to be one representative for each state, which, again, wasn't fair for the larger states. So they came up with a compromise that involved a two-house legislature. In the lower house the states would be represented based on their population. In the upper house the states were represented equally with two representatives. In the end, everybody was happy.
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Period 2
The Great Compromise was an agreement between the large and small states during the Contitutional Convention of 1787. The more populated states like Virginia, Massachsetts, and New York wanted to votes to be based on population. States with small populations like Rhode Island and New Jersey would not sigh the constitution. This was called the Virginia Plan. As a result the smaller states came up with a different plan called the New Jersey Plan. This plan said that each state should get one vote, no matter their population. Then the larger populated states would not sign the constitution. FA result of the Great Compromise was our bicameral legislature, which gave us the United States Senate, and the house of Representatives.
ReplyDeleteThe “Great Compromise” was an agreement made among the delegates to the Constitutional Convention that the American government would have two houses in Congress; the Senate where each state has two Senators, and the House of Representatives where each state has a number of Representatives based on population. Two plans were put forth during the Constitutional Convention to create the new branches of government. The Virginia Plan wanted a national government with three branches. The legislature would have two houses. The New Jersey Plan wanted each state would have one vote in Congress. The Great Compromise ended one of the most serious disagreements among the new states. Small states felt that all states were equal in stature and that if Congressional representation were based upon population, they would be outvoted on everything. Large states felt that populations should determine how many representatives a state should have, because they were afraid that they would be outvoted by the small states. This disagreement was preventing the Constitution from being ratified. In order to move forward on the Constitution, the states compromised and made Congress as a bicameral legislative body. The Great Compromise combined these two plans creating our current legislature with two houses, one based on population and elected by the people and the other house allowing two senators per state being appointed by state legislatures.
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Period 2
The "Great Compromise" was introduced when the delegates were arguing over which plan to go with. The Virginia Plan or the New Jersey Plan. Henry Clay then proposed "The Great Compromise". A two house legislature. In the lower house, the states would be represented on the basis of the population. In the upper house, the states would be equally represented with two members of the house. On July 16, 1787 the convention voted to accept the compromise.
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2nd period*
Question 3
ReplyDeleteWhat is the Great Compromise? The Great Compromise was formed by combining to plans together. One of the plans was called the New Jersey Plan which all of the smaller and less populated states liked, but the populated states did not like it at all. Why is because every state only gets one vote, and there would be only one house of legislature. The other plan called the Virginia Plan was where votes went by population and were bicameral, and that is why the bigger states with a big population wanted that plan. So what happened to make all of the states happy is they compromised. This compromise was called The Great Compromise. They did put part of the Virginia Plan by having 2 houses called the House of Senators and the House of Representatives. The House of Representatives would be represented by population, and the House of Senates would be represented by two members for every state like how the New Jersey Plan wanted it. The Great Compromise was accepted on July 16, 1787. It was the best compromise ever.
Velisity Oliver
2nd Period
Question 3
ReplyDeleteThe Great Compromise was a decision on how many representatives each state should have in the new government’s lawmaking branch. The Virginia Plan was an option that the delegates could put into effect. But the plan called for each state to have different numbers of representatives, according to the state’s population. The New Jersey Plan was supported by delegates from the smaller states. This one called for each state to send the same number of representatives, no matter how big or small. In the end the Great Compromise was made, forming a bicameral legislature, and taking shape of the Virginia Plan. This descion was very important because without a compromise between the states, then our country would be divided today, because of the debate between state power.
Claudia Loayza
-2nd period
The Great Compromise happened at the Constitutional Convention in 1787. At the Convention, there were two plans that came about. One, known as the Virginia Plan, wanted to have a bicameral way of government. In the lower house, states would have representatives according to their population. The higher house were the representatives elected from the lower house. Sometimes, if you were not high in population, you didn't have any representatives in the higher house. This sat well with the bigger states but the little states hated the plan. New Jersey also presented a plan that had only one house and everyone had the same representatives. The vote had to be unanimous and so Congress decided to compromise the two ideas. On July 2, the grand committee met and it was chaired by Benjamin Franklin. The compromise was presented and it called for a two-house legislature. In the lower house, population dictated how many representatives you had. In the higher house, each state got two representatives. On July 16, 1787, the convention came to a unanimous vote to accept the compromise.
ReplyDeleteThis is important because without compromising, I have no doubt in my mind that the smaller (or bigger) states would have broken off and who knows what kind of country we would be today. Doing The Great Compromise, really set us up to last for a long time.
Taylor Thompson :D
The Great Compromise was run by Benjamin Franklin. It was for a two house legislature. The lower house, was mostly about population. This is how they determined the representatives and direct taxation. In the upper house, each state had 2 representatives. The convection was accepted on July 16, 1787. The Great Compromise was important to Americans because of the absence list of individual rights. That helped because it restrained the government power.
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2nd Period
The Great Compromise was in June 29th, 1787 in Philadelphia combining the New Jersey plan and the Virginia Plan. The New Jersey Plan was debated for four days, but the larger states wouldn't sign onto it. The Virginia Plan was debated for two weeks. Many people believed that the compromise was a major progression towards the unification of the States, and has solved the problem of state representation.
ReplyDeleteThe Constitutional Convention said that they would break up; the delegates began to make compromises on important issues. One of the big issues that they first resolved was State Representation.
The smaller states were in for the New Jersey Plan, which was William Paterson's idea. People believed that in many ways this plan resembled their current government, The Articles of Confederation. The New Jersey plan was proposed a one-house national legislature with representatives selected by state legislatures. Each state would be able to have one vote.
The larger states supported the Virginia Plan, which was Edmund Randolph's idea. The people interested in this plan were the larger states. The smaller states feared that they would have too much power. This plan proposed three separate branches of government and bicameral legislature. Where representation will be based upon states population or money contributions.
The Compromise was called to the Constitutional Convection to break the deadlock created by the New Jersey and The Virginia Plan. After months of debates the Convection decided that the legislature will be bicameral, meaning there will be two houses, and one house will have equal representation, while the other is based on population of the state. (The Senate and the House of Representation) The Senate is part of the New Jersey plan and the House of Representatives is part of the Virginia plan.
Emily Hopes
2 period
The "Great Compromise" was the result of an argument between the Northern states and the Southern. Each had their own plan of how they thought the government should be run. The Northern states had the New Jersey Plan, while the Southern states had the Virginia Plan. In order to settle this debate, congress came up with the "Great Compromise", which took ideas from both of the plans.
ReplyDeleteThe "Great Compromise" was bicameral, and let each state have a number of votes depending on their population.
It was important because it made it so all the states could have a fair number of votes depending on their population, and kept any one branch of government from gaining too much power.
Brandie Mounteer
The Articles of Confederation was, in my opinion, a temporary document that had thought put in to it but not as much that was needed. When the Americans won the war they had to come up with the government they all had been dreaming of. However, even though it was originally created in 1777 it was not yet ratified and put to order until 1781. Not all the wants of the Americans were fulfilled by the ratifying of this document. And when conflict arose, the continental congress gathered together another time to create a document that would clearly state the rights and beliefs of the American people. They met in 1787 to discuss and draft one of our countries most valuable documents, the Constitution. The constitution is basically the framework for the United States government. That withholds the precious freedoms we favor this day.
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The Constitutional Convention of 1787 was about when George Washington and other political men got together to get rid of the Articles of Confederation and to start fresh. Heavily populated states preferred the Virginian plan, to have representatives based on the state’s population. Where other smaller state preferred the New Jersey plan, where every state would have two representatives. The Great Compromise was agreed on by all 13 states. What came from the Virginian plan was where the lower house’s representatives were based on each state’s population. The New Jersey plan played a part in the higher house, each state had two representatives. This idea ended up working out perfectly. So perfectly in fact, we, 224 years later we still have the same constitution. Without this compromise we definitely would not have the same steady working government.
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Period 2
The Great Compromise was a big debate. People had two plans that they could not agree on. First, the Virginia plan, a plan where each state got one vote no matter how populated. Many of the smaller states liked this idea. The other one was the New Jersey plan, a plan where the executive branch got all of the power. Many of the larger populated states liked this idea. Because they couldn’t decide which plan, they came up with The Great Compromise. The Great Compromise is where we got three branches of government: Judicial, Legislative, and Executive. And each state got votes according to their population. A slave counting as 3/5 of a vote, and each person as one, that way, each person was represented equally. And, no branch of government gained too much power. It is important because that compromise is what we use for our government today. The only difference today is now each person is counted as a whole, there are no slaves.
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2nd period
The Great Compromise was a good thing for both small states and large states. Each small state, like New Jersey for example, gets two votes. The slaves in the small states are counted as three fifths of a white man. The larger states would be represented with two members per state. But only for the larger ones. On July 16, 1787, the compromise was accepted.
ReplyDeleteThe Great Compromise is a mixture of two plans, the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan. The Virginia Plan was brought up by James Madison. The ideas of the plan was there would be two houses, or bicameral, and the number of votes depended on the population. William Paterson made up the New Jersey Plan. The plan was that they should have a unicameral and just one vote for each state. The states with little people refused to go with the Virginia Plan because of their population. The more populous states refused to go with the New Jersey Plan. After many arguments they brought up the Great Compromise. The plan was that there would be two houses, the upper house has two votes, and the lower house depends on the population. The Great Compromise is important because it had a little part of the Virginia Plan and a little part of the New Jersey Plan which made a good government.
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There are many reasons for why the Constitution replaced the Articles of Confederation, but the most important reason is because the Articles of Confederation did not support the new nation. When the nation was created the Articles of Confederation was created as the new government. It worked for a few years but then Massachusetts taxed farmer. Many farmers got mad and so Shayes's Rebellion was created. Massachusetts of course asked for help but no one came to help. They brought to attention that they weren't as "United" as they had wanted. So, the Constitution was created to help the states become united. That is the main reason for why the Constitution replaced the Articles of Confederation.
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2nd
Question 3-
ReplyDeleteThe Great Compromise was an agreement created during the Constitutional Convention. When the delegates were writing the constitution to replace The Articles of Confederation, there was some debate on how the legislation should be run. The bigger states put together a proposition: The Virginia Plan. The Virginia Plan said that there should be a bicameral system where in both houses the representatives are decided by population. Well that didn’t sit too well with the smaller states like Rhode Island. So they proposed another solution: The New Jersey Plan. The New Jersey Plan said that there would be one house were each state is represented equally with one vote each.
As the delegates argued they came to one conclusion; that you can’t go with either plan without losing the other side. Then an agreement was formed, a compromise. This is The Great Compromise. This plan takes the biggest points in each plan to create our country’s legislation. The Great Compromise states that our legislation will have two houses. The lower house (House of Representatives) will have representatives that are controlled by the state’s population. The upper house (Senate) would have two legislators for each state.
This is important because it shows how the government was formed and that it took compromise.
The Ordinances of 1784 and 1785 were helpful in many ways for the development of the west. The Ordinance of 1784 divided the Western territories into ten self-governing districts. The Ordinance of 1785 was a system for surveying the states and selling the western land. The land north of the Ohio River was surveyed and put into townships. The town ships were rectangular with thirty-six sections in each. Four of the sections of every township were set aside by the government. One of the four sections was set aside to support public school. Townships became a model for many land policies of the federal government. They also became a layout for some American cities. Townships also stopped the uncertainty about property lines. They sped up the development of the Western states, by making land ownership simpler and more understandable. In conclusion the Ordinances were helpful in the development of the west.
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2nd period
The Great Compromise consisted of two plans. The Virginia plan and the New Jersey plan. The Virginia plan was that there would be two legislative houses and that the higher population states got more votes. But, the small states like Rhode Island didn’t like this because it meant the bigger states had more power of what happened to all the states. The New Jersey plan was that there would only be one legislative house and that every state only got one vote. After arguing for weeks they finally came up with a compromise. The compromise was that there would be a bicameral legislature and every state would get two votes. This compromise was very important for the United States; it is basis of our entire government because both sides got representation. The big states and the little states got something they wanted. It was put together so there were two houses, one was of population and the other was that everyone got two votes so the little states could be of some importance. That is how we continue to stand together as a country today.
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The Constitution replaced the Articles of Confederation because first and foremost while the Confederation was not a complete failure, it was far from a success because there was no separation of powers. There was no President or any other independent executive, nor was there a federal judicial branch.
ReplyDeleteThe Articles of Confederation were adopted in 1777 and only existed from 1781 until 1789 because the Confederation lacked adequate powers to deal with interstate issues and enforcing its will on the states.
The government we have in place today is much like the Confederation where Congress remains in control. The only differences are that the Confederate wasn't able to regulate trade, draft troops or tax people directly. The Confederation Congress was ineffective and unpopular so that by 1783, most of its members fled Pennsylvania because army vets were demanding their pay. By 1786 the government had grown so weak, that Alexander Hamilton called for an overhaul of the Articles.
James Madison and George Washington attended the convention and were included in the fifty-five men who came to be known as the "Founding Fathers". They all agreed that the U.S.A. needed a stronger centralized government. The Virginia Plan, which was drafted by James Madison was favored because it gave all power at all levels of government to the people.
I believe that when the people adopted the Articles of Confederation they were looking for anyway to be different than England with a King who dictated. However, they went a little too far in giving too much power to the states.
In summary, the Constitution gave them a stable government, individual rights, control, but mainly a strong central government, which the Articles could not.
The Great Compromise was where the smaller states like New Jersey and Rhode Island would not sign the Consitution. Because voting was based on the population. So they changed it so every state got their own vote which was called the New Jersey Plan. After that the bigger states like Virgina that had a larger population would not sign the Consitution. So they had to compromise(Hence the name The Great Compromise). They came up with United States Senate and The House of Represenitives. This was important because it taught the United States to compromise. It was also important because it gave everyone equal votes. Now everyone is happy:)!
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The Great Compromise was a compromise made in the early stages of the United States. It was a compromise between two ideas, the New Jersey Plan, and the Virginia Plan. The Virginia Plan gave the larger and more populated states more power because it said that every state got so many votes based on their population. So say that for every 2,000 people, the state would get one vote. This would give the states with the most people the most power. The problem with this plan for some people was that the larger states would only look out for themselves, and not for America as a whole. The New Jersey Plan benefited the smaller states because it said that every state got the same amount of votes, no matter how big or small they were. This compromise was very important because it didn’t split up America into taking sides. It ended up becoming the Senate and House of Representatives that we still have today. If it has worked so well this long, I’d say it was very important that our founding fathers made this compromise.
ReplyDelete<3/ Justine Rupprecht
The “Great Compromise” is what made our government what it is today. It is an agreement between the big states and the small states. The smaller states plan was that every state had an equal amount of votes. Whereas the bigger states wanted more votes for the bigger population. The argument went on for weeks and there was no way that the big states would go for the lesser votes. Of course the small states didn’t want to give into the amount of votes for how big their population was. So the delegates argued back and forth and didn’t want to give up. This is where the “Great Compromise” comes in. The compromise stated that there would be an upper house and a lower house. The upper house would have equal amount of representatives from each state. The lower house would have representatives depending on how many people there are in the state. The lower population would have fewer representatives. While the higher populated states have more. The representatives in the upper house made major decisions while the lower house made less important decisions. This event made America what it is today. We have a totally different life with the “Great Compromise” than we would have had with the Virginia plan. And the New Jersey plan would have affected our lives greatly. The history of America greatly impacts our lives today. The “Great Compromise” changed our lives forever.
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The Great Compromise was a good thing to have for the states. It meant that each state got only two votes. It didn’t matter how big the states were, each state got only one vote. It was good for the states because some of the Southern states had a way bigger population then most of the Northern states combined. So with this compromise everything is fair between all the states.
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