36. What was decided on in the Great Compromise? 37. What section of the country did not want slaves to be counted in the population? 38. What did the Three-Fifths Compromise decide? 39. What is the Bill of Rights? 40. Why did some people oppose the Constitution?

36. The Great Compromise, also known as the Connecticut Compromise, resolved the disagreement between large and small states over representation in Congress. It established a bicameral legislature with two houses: the Senate, where each state would have equal representation (two senators), and the House of Representatives, where representation would be based on population.<br /><br />37. The **North**, specifically the non-slaveholding states, did not want slaves to be counted in the population for the purpose of determining representation in the House of Representatives. They argued that since slaves were not considered citizens and had no voting rights, counting them would give slaveholding states an unfair advantage in Congress.<br /><br />38. The Three-Fifths Compromise determined that three out of every five slaves would be counted for the purposes of apportioning seats in the House of Representatives and for direct taxation.<br /><br />39. The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. These amendments guarantee essential rights and liberties to individuals, including freedom of speech, religion, the press, the right to bear arms, protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, and the right to due process and a fair trial.<br /><br />40. Some people opposed the Constitution, known as Anti-Federalists, primarily because they feared it created a central government that was too powerful and could potentially infringe on individual liberties. They were concerned about the lack of a bill of rights to explicitly protect these liberties and believed that the Constitution gave too much power to the federal government at the expense of the states.<br />