Compromises

  Great compromise

- The great compromise was a compromise between small states and large states during the 1787 constitutional convention. It was an agreement on how each state would get equal representation in congress. The smaller states wanted as equal say in congress as the larger states. Finally they reached an agreement after Roger Sherman proposed the great compromise. Each state big or small would get to send one senate to congress, and the amount of representation would be proportional to the states population. Which later brought up another compromise known as the Three-Fifths compromise.

 Three-Fifths compromise

-The three fifths compromise was a compromise between delegates of the southern states and northern states. In 1787 at the constitutional convention the southern and northern states were trying to decide whether slaves would be counted for a total population, which determined the amount of representatives that each state was allowed to send to congress. With much debate between the north and south, finally James Madison proposed the idea of the Three-Fifths compromise. In this compromise the northern states and southern states decided that three-fifths of the slaves population would be included in the total sates population, and would be used to determine the number of representatives.

  
                                     
                                         A picture of the constitutional convention
   
                                
                                        Three Fifths compromise illustration

The break-up T-Jeff vs King Georgy

Thomas Jefferson:  Look I’ve had enough of your crap. 

King George:  What did I do?  What crap are you talking about?

Thomas Jefferson:  First the Stamp Act, when you taxed all our printed goods, then, The Tea Act, when you taxed all the tea.  You know we all drink a lot of tea.  Third, the Boston Massacre when you shot my friends.  It’s out right to do this and I don’t have to explain any of this to you.  But, looking at just those three points, you can’t blame us for wanting to break apart from you.

King George: Come on, give me another chance.  I can change.

Thomas Jefferson:  Oh really, you already turned away my Olive Branch Petition asking you for time to rethink our decisions and we started our own Congress to discuss your intolerable acts.  You took neither of these appeals seriously.  You didn’t even consider our Olive Branch Petition.

I speak for all true American Colonists.  We are leaving.                                       

King George:  Well, I shall not allow this; and you can expect a full on war.

Thomas Jefferson:  It is our right to declare independence from you.  We shall be ready and we shall win your war.

Thomas Jefferson vs King George

The First Continental Congress

 

A copy of the Olive Branch Petition

French and Indian War

     The French and Indian War took place in 1754. The war was fought between French colonies and British colonies . At the start of the war the British colonies had a population of two-million people where as the French had only a population of sixty-thousand. That meant the French had to rely on there allies the Indians. The war started when both sides could not come to an agreement on who should control the rivers and bays conflicts expanded as the war continued to grow. The main reason the war started was trade routes and who controlled them. At the end of the war the British conquered almost all of the french colonies land, and what little land the french had left they sold to the Spanish colonies. As a result of the war, the colonists lost respect for Britian's army and the French lost almost all of there land. 

    land dispute before and after

Work Cited:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_and_Indian_War

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