coping: the top, typically sloping, course of a brick or stone wall.
C) From deciphering the writing they left behind
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Washington DC was made the nation's capital after a backroom compromise deal was made for Madison, a Virginia, to get Alexander Hamilton, of New York, the votes he needed to pass a bill wherein the Federal government would subsume the various war debt of the colonies in return for the capital being moved out of the north.
I believe it would be that D) it could help to protect other English colonies. This is because of its relative position. Being to the south of the other colonies and directly North of Spanish Florida, it would serve as a buffer between the English colonies and the Spaniards.