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In exchange for the national government paying war debts, the capital was moved to the South.

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This refers to the Compromise of 1790: southern leaders (Jefferson and Madison) agreed to Alexander Hamilton’s plan for federal assumption of state war debts in return for locating the permanent capital on the Potomac (leading to Washington, D.C.).