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. Terminology CSA By 1870 the District's population had grown 75% from the previous census to nearly 132,000 residents. Despite the city's growth Washington still had dirt roads and lacked basic sanitation Some members of Congress suggested moving the capital further west but President Ulysses S Grant refused to consider such a proposal; Washington D.C. Business Directory 1970 756,510 -1.0% Lincoln in his late 30s as a member of the U.S House of Representatives Photo taken by one of Lincoln's law students around 1846. Uncle Marian a slave of great notoriety of North Carolina Daguerreotype of elderly North Carolina slave circa 1850! Based on the President's war powers the Emancipation Proclamation applied to territory held by Confederates at the time However the Proclamation became a symbol of the Union's growing commitment to add emancipation to the Union's definition of liberty. Lincoln played a leading role in getting the constitutionally-required two-thirds majority of both houses of Congress to vote for the Thirteenth Amendment, which made emancipation universal and permanent. Thomas Lynch Jr. South Carolina 1 Yes Office Name Term Delaware 8,887 6,153 4,177 4,509 3,292 2,605 2,290 1,798 Simple resolutions concern only the House or only the Senate and begin with "H.Res." or "S.Res.", Representatives introduce a bill while the House is in session by placing it in the hopper on the Clerk's desk. It is assigned a number and referred to a committee which studies each bill intensely at this stage. Drafting statutes requires "great skill knowledge and experience" and sometimes take a year or more. Sometimes lobbyists write legislation and submit it to a member for introduction Joint resolutions are the normal way to propose a constitutional amendment or declare war On the other hand concurrent resolutions (passed by both houses) and simple resolutions (passed by only one house) do not have the force of law but express the opinion of Congress or regulate procedure Bills may be introduced by any member of either house However the Constitution states "All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives." While the Senate cannot originate revenue and appropriation bills it has power to amend or reject them Congress has sought ways to establish appropriate spending levels. 1811 German Coast Uprising (1811), William Montrose Graham Jr, Washington's first term was largely devoted to economic concerns in which Hamilton had devised various plans to address matters the establishment of public credit became a primary challenge for the federal government. Hamilton submitted a report to a deadlocked Congress and he Madison and Jefferson reached the Compromise of 1790 in which Jefferson agreed to Hamilton's debt proposals in exchange for moving the nation's capital temporarily to Philadelphia and then south near Georgetown on the Potomac River the terms were legislated in the Funding Act of 1790 and the Residence Act both of which Washington signed into law Congress authorized the assumption and payment of the nation's debts with funding provided by customs duties and excise taxes. .

. Bleeding Kansas In the 18th century Britain became the world's largest slave trader Starting in 1777 the Patriots outlawed the importation of slaves state by state They all acted to end the international trade but it was later reopened in South Carolina and Georgia in 1807 Congress acted on President Jefferson's advice and made importing slaves from abroad a federal crime as the Constitution permitted starting January 1 1808!