Question

Locating the nation's capital in what is now Washington was the result of a compromise in which southern states agreed for the federal government to take over state debts, mainly helping northern states. Infer What about Washington's location helped southern states accept the compromise?

Answer 1

The Compromise of 1790 was a compromise between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson with James Madison where Hamilton won the decision for the national government to take over and pay the state debts, and Jefferson and Madison obtained the national capital (District of Columbia) for the South.

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