1. Hamilton's critics claimed that his scheme would provide enormous profits to speculators who had bought bonds from Revolutionary War veterans for as little as 10 or 15 cents on the dollar. For six months, a bitter debate raged in Congress, until James Madison and Thomas Jefferson engineered a compromise.
2. Southerners opposed this plan because many of the Southern states had already paid off their war debts.
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By September, Clay's Compromise became law. California was admitted to the Union as the 16th free state. In exchange, the south was guaranteed that no federal restrictions on slavery would be placed on Utah or New Mexico. ... Slavery was maintained in the nation's capital, but the slave trade was prohibited.
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Monroe Doctrine<span>. the policy, as stated by President </span>Monroe<span> in 1823, that the U.S. opposed further European colonization of and interference with independent nations in the Western Hemisphere.</span>
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Navigating hazardous rivers, the Corps of Discovery paddled the Clearwater to the Snake and on at last to the Columbia. Driven to reach the western sea before winter and challenged by treacherous white water, Lewis and Clark had little time to describe the dark-walled canyons and treeless plains around them.
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