Congress has exclusive authority over financial and budgetary matters, through the enumerated power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States.
Columbus was trying to find a way to India when he landed in North America.
The American civil war. The south is the blue, the north is red. The south didn’t need to capture any Northern Territory, whereas the north wanted to take over the south so that they could keep the states united, hence the Union.