The Compromise of 1790 is a compromise…
June 1790 CE
Madison agrees to not be "strenuous" in opposition for the assumption of state debts by the federal government; Hamilton agrees to support the capital site being above the Potomac.
The compromise resolves the deadlock in Congress.
Southerners had been blocking the assumption of state debts by the treasury, thereby destroying the Hamiltonian program for building a fiscally strong nation state.
Northerners had rejected the proposal, much desired by Virginians, to locate the permanent national capital on the Virginia-Maryland border.
The compromise makes possible the passage of the Residence and Funding (Assumption) Acts in July and August 1790.