The Compromise page.
The Virginia plan was a plan concocted by delegates from Virginia. It called for the states that had the largest population to get the most representatives.
The New Jersy plan wanted the opposite of the Virginia plan, it called for all the states to have an equal # of Representatives.
The great compromise was a compromise between both plans. the legeslature was divided into 2 parts, the Senate,where all the states had the same number of representatives and the House of Representatives where the states with the largest populations have the most representatives.
Also Southern states wanted to count slaves as part of thier population but the Northern states, who had few slaves disagreed.
the 3/5 compromise said that 3 out of every 5 slaves would be counted as population.