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Article: The compromise of 1790: a capital simulation.(lookout point)
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- Social Education
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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THE GREATEST THREAT to the future of the United States following the American Revolution consisted of regional loyalties and interests. The first U.S. Congress hotly debated two controversial issues: the location of the national capital and the federal assumption of the thirteen states' Revolutionary War debts. Differences in interests and opinions between northern and southern states threatened the unity of this congress, just as they had earlier been a problem for the Constitutional Convention. The north-south division now threatened the unity of the new nation.
A few key political leaders advocated what came to be known as the Compromise of 1790: the national ...
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