HELP ASAP PLS explain the main factors that led to the Great Compromise. Be sure to include: the two competing plans that came before it and how civic virtue played a role in the Founding Fathers' acceptance of the Great Compromise.

To keep the convention from dissolving into chaos, the founding fathers came up with the Great Compromise.

The factors that led to the Great Compromise were that the delegates of the Constitutional Convention were debating on which plan to use to determine how people would be represented in the legislative branch; the Virginia Plan or the New Jersey Plan.  The large states wanted to use the Virginia Plan, which was a plan to make two houses and use the state’s population to determine the number of representatives, and the small states wanted to use the New Jersey Plan, which was a proposal to have one house and one representative per state.  In the text, it says that Roger Sherman made a compromise to make both the small and large states happy by making one house with two representatives per state, and another house with the population of the state to determine the number of representatives per state.  This shows that the Great Compromise was created because of the major debate over which plan to use for the legislative branch.

Civic virtue played a role in the Founding Fathers’ acceptance of the Great Compromise by allowing them to do what they think is best for the country.  The passage states that Goerge Washington, Roger Sherman, and James Madison all demonstrated civic virtue by willing to compromise and do what they thought was best for the country.  This explains that without civic virtue, the Founding Fathers wouldn’t have been able to listen to other peoples’ opinions and find compromise.