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New Jersey Plan

Virginia Plan

Constitutional Convention date

bicameral

compromise

Three-Fifths Compromise

The Great Compromise

two-house legislature (Think of House of Representatives and the Senate)

1787

Two house legislature (bicameral), representation based on population,favored big states

favored small sates, only one house (unicameral), more like Articles of Confederation

Combination of the New Jersey and Virginia Plan which established the House of Representatives and the Senate . They created a the Senate and House of Representatives as a result.

agreement or settlement between two sides

Compromise where every five slaves counted as three people for taxation and representation