The Great Compromise - Compromise that combined the Virginia and New Jersey Plans to create a two-house legislature, with one body's representation based on population, and one body's representation equal among the states, The Electoral College - Compromise for electing the President. Each state has electors equal to the number of their representatives in Congress who vote for President based on the votes from the people in their state, Three-Fifths (3/5) Compromise - Compromise that state that enslaved people would count as three-fifths of a person when determining how many representatives each state would have in the House of Representatives, Slave Importation Clause - Compromise that said that the United States could not make any laws banning the importation of slaves for 20 years after the Constitution was ratified, Fugitive Slave Clause - Compromise that said enslaved people who fled to northern states ("fugitive slaves") could be returned to slavery in the South. They were not granted freedom be leaving slave-holding territory.,

Constitutional Compromises

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