The correct answer is "The internal slave trade within the US grew dramatically."
There were multiple reasons as to why the internal slave trade grew. One of them was the fact that the Atlantic slave trade, where US citizens got many of their slaves, was abolished as of 1808. Along with this, the cotton gin made it easier to pick seeds out of cotton. This ease in production caused a skyrocket in profits for those plantations that could produce mass amounts of cotton. This results in southern plantation owners trying to trade for as many slaves as possible, so they could continue to make significant profits.
Roger Sherman's proposal (known as the Great Compromise and the Connecticut Compromise) was that there would be a bicameral legislature in the American government and that proportional representation would exist in the lower house and the upper house would be equally weighted between the states.
The fundamental unit that you count to gauge how good a city is not the number of people, but the number of connections.
