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The Compromise of 1790: A Capital Simulation

Submitted by Steven Lapham on Fri, 08/14/2009 - 2:59pm

--David L. Ghere
Study the handout map and chart. The national capital would be built in the South if the federal government would assume the states' Revolutionary War debts. Would it work?

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US History [5]

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