The Great Compromise refers to the agreement between

• A. Slave states in the South and free states in the North to admit Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state
• B. Small states and large states at the Constitutional Convention to create a bicameral Congress that would preserve the balance of power among the states
• C. Federalists and Anti-Federalists to ratify the Constitution on the condition that the first Congress draft a Bill of Rights
• D. Federalists and Anti-Federalists to designate Washington, D.C., as the new national capital in exchange for debt relief to impoverished farmers