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Gnom [1K]
3 years ago
14

Why did Washington, D.C. become the nation’s capital, rather than New York

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Klio2033 [76]3 years ago
6 0

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.

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