Question

What were Americans’ experiences with political compromise before the Constitution was ratified?(1 point)
Responses

Americans had never experienced political compromise because they focused on majority rule.
Americans had never experienced political compromise because they focused on majority rule.

Delegates to the Constitutional Convention agreed to many compromises to create the Constitution.
Delegates to the Constitutional Convention agreed to many compromises to create the Constitution.

Americans were in total agreement with one another as they drafted the new U.S. Constitution.
Americans were in total agreement with one another as they drafted the new U.S. Constitution.

Political compromise seemed impossible because of all the factions in the U.S.

Answer 1

Delegates to the Constitutional Convention agreed to many compromises to create the Constitution. (Examples: the Great/Connecticut Compromise, the Three-Fifths Compromise, and the Commerce/Slave Trade Compromise.)