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Spanish mainland North and South America 4.4%, Main article: Health of Abraham Lincoln 1 Course For statistical purposes the District of Columbia is treated as a state-equivalent (and a county-equivalent) by the U.S Census Bureau. The selection of a location for the capital resurfaced in the summer of 1790 At the same time Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton was pushing for Congress to pass a financial plan a key provision of Hamilton's plan involved the Federal government assuming states' debts incurred during the American Revolutionary War Northern states had accumulated a huge amount of debt during the war amounting to 21.5 million dollars and wanted the federal government to assume their burden the Southern states whose citizens would effectively be forced to pay a portion of this debt if the Federal Government assumed it balked at this proposal Some states including Virginia had paid almost half of their debts and felt that their taxpayers should not be assessed again to bail out the less provident Further they argued that the plan exceeded the scope of the new Constitutional government James Madison then a representative from Virginia led a group of legislators from the south in blocking the provision and preventing the plan from gaining approval. . In 1861 General Scott advised Abraham Lincoln to ask Lee to command U.S forces Lee declined and later recounted "I declined the offer he made me to take command of the army that was brought into the field stating candidly and as courteously as I could that though opposed to secession and deprecating war I could take no part in the invasion of the southern states.".

A dusk picture of the Washington Monument obelisk with flags around the base in Washington D.C; Population % Blacks, Washington's Farewell Address (September 19 1796), Main article: War of 1812. .