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Hamilton's financial plans favored the northern states.

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True.

Hamilton's plan (assumption of state debts, a national bank, tariffs and subsidies for manufacturing) primarily benefited commercial and financial interests concentrated in the northern states. Southern, agrarian states profited less and opposed many elements (leading to the 1790 Compromise that moved the capital to the Potomac in exchange for assumption).