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Washington DC was chosen to be where it is because of thomas Jefferson. when Jefferson lost his election to John Adams he became VP, john Adams decided to move the capitol of the the US from New York, some place else, first they looked at a small agricultural town, Germantown,MD but this town was not close enough to Virginia for Jefferson so the state of Maryland donated a piece of land for the capitol of the US which is about half-a-mile from Virginia.

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