Which best explains the need for the Great Compromise?
Yes

I can’t see a picture / any multiple choice options, but the reason they needed it was to settle the argument about legislative representation between small and big states during the philadelphia convention. it was to find a middle ground between the Virginia plan and the New Jersey plan.

The correct answer is B) a greater trade balance.

By the early 1700s, the colonies had established a greater trade balance.

Let's have in mind that after the failed attempt of the Roanoke colony in 1587, the first official colony founded by the English was Jamestown, Virginia. The Virginia London Company sponsored the trip to North America, trying to exploit many raw materials to make a lot of money. Then, by 1620, the Puritans that were escaping from religious persecution and political differences with the Church of England, founded the Plymouth colony in Massachusetts.

That is how it all begun.

So by the beginning of the 1700s, some Chesapeake colonies, Middle colonies, and Massacustes were formally established and growing. Most of them grew crops that were traded with other colonies or exported to Europe. That is why we say that by the early 1700s, the colonies had established a greater trade balance.