Congress approved Hamiltons plan for the national government to take responsibilty (or assume) for the debts aquired by the states during the Revolution.
-Southern states didn't want to help pay back the debts they felt the North owed.
-Hamilton gained their support through a deal: if they supported him, he would put the capital in the South. (on the banks of the Potomac River)
I think that they should not have so that the US would have Iraq as a friendly country. The US would want a lot of countries that are nice to them so they don't need much wars. Also, they could have made some deal with Iraq to stop the fighting and both get a share in what they want.
Scalawags were white Southerners who worked with northern Republicans that advocated for Reconstruction, typically, <em>so that they could earn more profit or restore profit that they had lost due to the Civil War</em>, whereas Copperheads were northern Democrats that didn't want the war at all and wanted to negotiate some sort of peace agreement or treaty with the South <em>just out of dislike of the war</em>.
The telegraph technology allowed for information to speed along fast, and highly accurate.
