What are the advantages of having a capital in the center of the country? how do you think the location of Washington, D.C. affected its early growth? Explain.

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Hosselausso · Answer 1 · 2022-06-19T11:03:43+0000

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Like many decisions in American history, the location of the new city was to be a compromise: Alexander Hamilton and northern states wanted the new federal government to assume Revolutionary War debts, and Thomas Jefferson and southern states who wanted the capital placed in a location friendly to slave-holding.

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