Delaware and Maryland both were free states.
<span>Thomas Jefferson stressed that civil liberties needed to be protected. He also stressed that there needed to be a capital where they could keep track of everything going on in the country.</span>
first here's the definition of a Proxy War : A proxy war is an armed conflict between two states which act or on behalf of other parties that are not directly involved in the hostilities. so the US government aided Africa even though they were not directly involved in the war themselves.