Question

Under the Great Compromise, a bicameral legislature was created with representation in the upper house (the Senate) being based on population and representation for each state in the lower house (the House of Representatives) being equal for all states.

Question 18 options:

True

False

Answer 1

False

Step-by-step explanation:

The great compromise that happened in 1781 was a heated argument that took place at the constitutional convention. States in the US that had larger population wanted the representation at the congress to be based on population while the small states wanted even amount of representation irrespective of the population.

An agreement was reached for there to be two national legislatures in a bicameral Congress with the members of the senate being drawn from each states, having two representatives, no matter their sizes while the members of the house for representative would be allocated based on the population sizes in the states.