The Great Compromise, also known as the Connecticut Compromise, was an agreement reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787. It resolved the dispute between large and small states over representation in the new U.S. federal government by creating a bicameral legislature with two houses: the Senate, where each state has equal representation (two senators per state), and the House of Representatives, where representation is based on state population. This compromise balanced the interests of both large and small states, enabling the successful drafting of the U.S. Constitution. It was proposed by Connecticut delegates Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth and accepted on July 16, 1787. The compromise also included the Three-Fifths Compromise on how enslaved people would be counted for representation purposes.