Why did the US move thecapital from Philadelphia to Washington DC?
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To accomodate the needs of the South. They needed to agree to a solid form of government and after the Revolution Hamilton wanted a national banking system. To do this, Hamilton wanted the national gov't take ownership of the individual states' debts, but that wouldn't benefit the South because they paid most of them off while the Northern states were still indebted to their citizenry. In the 18th century, North and South states' economies and ways of life were quite different and they didn't have much in common. The US also moved the capital further south to keep the Southern states in the Union and created a separate "District of Columbia" from Virginian and Maryland lands so that the capital wouldn't be located in any one state.
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Philadelphia, for 10 years before 1800, and New York for a few months before that.   Washington became the capital in 1800.
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They are all located in D.C.
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Because that is the financial center of our country.  Wall Street is located there.  Federal Rederve is also located there. If they take out NYC most money making comes to a complete hault.  Not very good for the gov't or the country.  When it was hit in 2001 wall street was closed for a few days and that severly hurt us financially.  \nOur gov''t isn't located there but our means to money and money making is and any terrorist smart enough would know how much that would hurt.
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Because they are a commonwealth.  They run their own country and the US only impacts certain areas.\n\nThis site tells you all about it.\nhttp://welcome.topuertorico.org/government.shtml
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DC is not a state, it is a separate entity. This was done so the federal government would not be held hostage by any single state. The land was donated both by Maryland and Virginia.\n\nDC does have electoral votes for President, and it does have observers to both the House and the Senate, so it can debate and introduce motions, but cannot vote on them.
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They did . It was at the Center of the Coast line And is now DC not affiliated with States but its own Jury-esh Diction.
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The reason is something like this. It was in the interest of profit to lower the interest rates in the US. By shifting there money to the new currencies and forcing the interest rates down more people get loans that are not fixed interest. There will come a time when all these rich people switch there money back to US dollar and raise the interest rate and steal all your money.
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The White House was built after Congress established the District of Columbia as the permanent capital of the United States on July 16, 1790.\n\nThe architect was chosen in a competition, which received nine proposals. James Hoban, an Irishman, was awarded the honor and construction began with the laying of the cornerstone on October 13, 1792. The building Hoban designed was modeled on the first and second floors of Leinster House, a ducal palace in Dublin, Ireland, which is now the seat of the Irish Parliament. Contrary to widely published myth, the North portico was not modelled on a similar portico on another Dublin building, the Viceregal Lodge (now Áras an Uachtaráin, residence of the President of Ireland). Its portico in fact postdates the White House portico's design. The capital was placed on land ceded by two states—Virginia and Maryland—which both ceded the land to the federal government in response to a compromise with President Washington. The D.C. commissioners were charged by Congress with building the new city under the direction of the President.\n\n \n19th Century view of the White House as seen from the southwest, with the old West Wing visible.Construction of the White House was completed on November 1, 1800. Over an extremely slow 8 years of construction, $232,371.83 was spent. This would be approximately equivalent to $2.4 million today (recalculated for recent inflation).\n\nThe front and rear porticoes were not part of the structure until about 1825.\n\nThe building was originally referred to as the Presidential Palace or Presidential Mansion. Dolley Madison called it the "President's Castle." However, by 1811 the first evidence of the public calling it the "White House" emerged, because of its white-painted stone exterior. The name Executive Mansion was often used in official context until President Theodore Roosevelt established the formal name by having "The White House" engraved on his stationery in 1901.\n\nJohn Adams became the first president to take residence in the building on November 1, 1800. In 1814 during the War of 1812, much of Washington, D.C., was burned down by British troops and the White House was gutted, leaving only the exterior walls standing. Popular legend holds that during the rebuilding of the structure white paint was applied to mask the burn damage it had suffered, giving the building its namesake hue. This is, however, unfounded as the building had been painted white since its construction in 1798. Of the numerous spoils taken from the White House when it was ransacked by British troops, only two have been recovered — a painting of George Washington, rescued by then-first lady Dolley Madison, and a jewelry box returned to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1939 by a Canadian who said his grandfather had taken it from Washington. Most of the booty was lost when a convoy of British ships led by HMS Fantome sank en route to Halifax off Prospect during a storm on the night of 24 November 1814. [1]\n\n \nLeinster House in Dublin\nThe 18th-century ducal palace in Dublin served as a model for the White House.The White House was attacked again on August 16, 1841, when U.S. President John Tyler vetoed a bill which called for the reestablishment of the Second Bank of the United States. Enraged Whig Party members rioted outside the White House in what was (and still is, as of 2006) the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U.S. history.\n\nLike the English and Irish country houses it resembled, the White House was remarkably open to the public until the early part of the twentieth century. President Thomas Jefferson held an open house for his second inaugural in 1805, when many of the people at his swearing-in ceremony at the Capitol followed him home, where he greeted them in the Blue Room.\n\n \nNorth Portico of the White House.Those open houses sometimes became rowdy: in 1829, President Andrew Jackson had to leave for
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to avoid troublesome involvement in european affairs.  they thought europes issues should be left to europe without wasting american lives.  this follows the advice of washingtons farewell address
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The Boeing 767 is equipped with "triple INS" which is a navigation system that updates the aircraft's position on a continuous basis and allows it to be flown directly to any point on the earth.  Anyone knowing the basics of INS navigation could have easily flown those planes to New York, Washington DC, Katmandu or anywhere else.\n\nHowever, there is a simpler explanation in this case.  Both of the planes that hit the WTC towers were hijacked over eastern Massachusetts.  The hijackers then simply flew down the Hudson River to Manhattan.\n\nIn the case of the other two aircraft, there isn't an easy answer, (since there isn't a river to follow directly) but both of them apparantly got lost enroute.\n\nBTW: This is an excellent example of how the two New York attacks were carried out completely differently from the Washington DC attacks.
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Washington D.C. in the District of Columbia.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid={867CEFA6-22D6-4DB9-AB4B-29D66BC02F39}&siteid=mktw\n\nIt says why they ended it there. I wonder if they'll refund our money...
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(m)\n\n"D.C." stands for the District of Columbia, the federal district containing the city of Washington.
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Washington DC is a separate federal district which was created to avoid the conflict of having it reside within the boundaries (and thus be subject to or subjugate) of either Maryland or Virginia.  The founding fathers didn't want one state becoming too powerful as a result of having the national capital located there, so they decided to place it in the middle of two states, but neither has any power over DC.  As such, neither state has any governmental jurisdiction over the district, nor can DC interfere with the affairs of either state.  It has it's own mayor and city government, plus a representative in Congress, but it essentially controlled by the federal government.\n\nAs to the naming, it's in honor of Chirstopher Columbus, "discoverer" of North America.
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that may be part of it but the main reason is because a LOT of rich business men who own big companies use cheap, immigrant workers rather than pay decent wages to American citizens.the same reason big business has moved to China,India,etc.
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Actually, they're not.\nThere are mints in San Francisco and West Point, too, although, at present, those ore not strikming general-circulation coins, only the special issues.\n\nAs to the original question, that's just where they built the original plants for making coins and, as yet, have seen no need to expand or relocate  (The first mint was in Philadelphia because it was the capital of the USofA at the time)