page_title: Removal of the Federal Government
section_title: Compromise of 1790
hierarchical_section_title: Removal of the Federal Government / The Debate on Removing the Federal Government from D.C. / Compromise of 1790
caption_attribution_description: English: A map of Washington D.C., Result of the Compromise of 1790. The plans for the new city to house the seat go government.
context_page_description: Much of Washington, D.C. was destroyed in the Burning of Washington on August 24, 1814 during the War of 1812. Following the destruction of Washington US leadership considered removing the Federal Government from D.C., but eventually choose to reconstruct the seat of government in D.C.
context_section_description: The location of the federal government was a result of the Compromise of 1790, the agreement that the capital would be placed below the Mason–Dixon line as a compromise to states assuming the Federal Government's Revolutionary war debt. The Compromise of 1790 was arranged between then Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, Congressman James Madison, and Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson in June 1790. The compromise resulted in moving the capital from New York to Philadelphia (for ten years) and finally to Washington D.C.. Hamilton agreed to provide the votes in Congress for the capital while Jefferson and Madison ensured enactment of Hamilton's plan for the assumption of the Revolutionary War debts of the states by the federal government.
caption: A map of Washington D.C., Result of the Compromise of 1790. The plans for the new city to house the seat of government.
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