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The Washington Monument seen across the Tidal Basin during 2007's National Cherry Blossom Festival, Washington D.C. Business Directory, 14.5 Memory and historiography Booker T Washington remembered Emancipation Day in early 1863 when he was a boy of nine in Virginia:. Chandigarh Punjab and Haryana India (1966) USS Constitution, Map showing the five geological provinces through which the Potomac River flows, Preparation for war map of the District 1835 After 1830 abolitionist and minister William Lloyd Garrison promoted emancipation characterizing slaveholding as a personal sin He demanded that slaveowners repent and start the process of emancipation His position increased defensiveness on the part of some southerners who noted the long history of slavery among many cultures a few abolitionists such as John Brown favored the use of armed force to foment uprisings among the slaves as he did at Harper's Ferry Most abolitionists tried to raise public support to change laws and to challenge slave laws Abolitionists were active on the lecture circuit in the North and often featured escaped slaves in their presentations the eloquent Frederick Douglass became an important abolitionist leader after escaping from slavery Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) was an international bestseller and aroused popular sentiment against slavery it also provoked the publication of numerous anti-Tom novels by Southerners in the years before the American Civil War. In Santa Fe Governor Manuel Armijo wanted to avoid battle but on August 9 Catholic priests Diego Archuleta (the young regular-army commander) and the young militia officers Manuel Chaves and Miguel Pino forced him to muster a defense. Armijo set up a position in Apache Canyon a narrow pass about 10 miles (16 km) southeast of the city. However on August 14 before the American army was even in view he decided not to fight (An American named James Magoffin claimed he had convinced Armijo and Archuleta to follow this course; an unverified story says he bribed Armijo.) When Pino Chaves and some of the militiamen insisted on fighting Armijo ordered the cannon pointed at them the New Mexican army retreated to Santa Fe and Armijo fled to Chihuahua, At the outset of the Revolutionary War the Second Continental Congress was meeting in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania State House On account of British military actions the Congress was forced to relocate to Baltimore Lancaster Pennsylvania and then York Pennsylvania for a time before returning to Philadelphia. Upon gaining independence the Congress of the Confederation was formed and Philadelphia became the new nation's first seat of government Congress did not remain in the city long however for in June 1783 a mob of angry soldiers converged upon Independence Hall demanding payment for their service during the war Congress requested that John Dickinson the governor of Pennsylvania call up the militia to defend Congress from attacks by the protesters in what became known as the Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783 Dickinson sympathized with the protesters and refused to remove them from Philadelphia As a result Congress was forced to flee to Princeton New Jersey on June 21 1783 and met in Annapolis and then Trenton before ending up in New York, 12.2 Distribution of slaveholders For more than thirty years however the 1776 New Jersey State Constitution gave the vote to "all inhabitants" who had a certain level of wealth including unmarried women and blacks (not married women because they could not own property separately from their husbands) until in 1807 when that state legislature passed a bill interpreting the constitution to mean universal white male suffrage excluding paupers. . . James Madison Virginia 1 Yes The Washington Metropolitan Area is the ninth-largest television media market in the nation with two million homes approximately 2% of the country's population. Several media companies and cable television channels have their headquarters in the area including C-SPAN; Black Entertainment Television (BET); Radio One; the National Geographic Channel; Smithsonian Networks; National Public Radio (NPR); Travel Channel (in Chevy Chase Maryland); Discovery Communications (in Silver Spring Maryland); and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) (in Arlington Virginia) the headquarters of Voice of America the U.S government's international news service is near the Capitol in Southwest Washington. United Nations: New York City is the main meeting place of the highest bodies of the UN but significant parts of its structure exist in other cities notably Vienna Geneva Nairobi and the Hague.

1.3 Retrocession and the Civil War In 1758 the Virginia Regiment was assigned to Britain's Forbes Expedition to take Fort Duquesne.[g] Washington disagreed with General John Forbes' tactics and chosen route. Forbes nevertheless made Washington a brevet brigadier general and gave him command of one of the three brigades that would assault the fort the French abandoned the fort and the valley before the assault was launched with Washington seeing only a friendly-fire incident which left 14 dead and 26 injured the war lasted another four years but Washington resigned his commission and returned to Mount Vernon; .