I believe Lake Itasca is the beginning of the Mississippi River. 
 
        
                    
             
        
        
        
Answer:
Debt Assumption
Explanation:
 Debt Assumption, or simply assumption, was a US financial policy executed under the Funding Act of 1790. The Washington administration pursued the policy, under Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton's leadership, to assume the outstanding debt of states that had not yet repaid their American Revolutionary War bonds and scrip.
 
        
             
        
        
        
Well becouse they would go away from loved ones and risk dieing and also peope might  love there fam to much