What was the great compromise at the constitutional convention? a congress was divided into two houses the senate was seated equally by state: the house of representatives was seated by population b only three-fifths of the enslaved population would be counted when calculating each state's representation in congress c some powers were given to the states, some to the federal government, and some to both d knowing that george washington woul be the first president, people at the convention wrote the powers of the president with him in mind

- "bill clinton ( the 42nd u.s. president, served in office from by low unemployment, declining crime rates and a budget surplus. during clinton's second term, the u.s. economy was healthy, unemployment was low and the nation experienced a major technology boom and the rise of the internet."

john smith was the first englishman to sail around the world. francis bacon served as attorney general and lord chancellor of england. he took up aristotelian ideas, arguing for an empirical, inductive approach, known as the scientific method, which is the foundation of modern scientific inquiry.