Question

Disagreement at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 over the Virginia and New Jersey plans was resolved by a compromise that...

A) guaranteed continuation of the slave trade for at least twenty more years
B) limited the power of the federal government to wage war
C) provided for construction of a new national capital in the south
D) created a Congress made up of a Senate and a house of Representatives

Answer 1

Answer: d

Explanation: The compromise was to have one house of Congress (the House of Representatives) base its representation on population (with each state having at least one representative) and for each state to have two senators in other house (the Senate) regardless of population. This compromise has worked for more than 200 years.