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. The midterm elections in 1862 cost the Republicans severe losses due to rising inflation high taxes rumors of corruption suspension of habeas corpus military draft law and fears that freed slaves would come North and undermine the labor market the Emancipation Proclamation gained votes for Republicans in rural New England and the upper Midwest but cost votes in the Irish and German strongholds and in the lower Midwest where many Southerners had lived for generations.:6:322.

. Washington D.C. Business Directory Painting by Howard Chandler Christy depicting the signing of the Constitution of the United States with Washington as the presiding officer standing at right. . The British intended to burn the building to the ground They set fire to the southern wing first the flames grew so quickly that the British were prevented from collecting enough wood to burn the stone walls completely However the Library of Congress's contents in the northern wing contributed to the flames on that side. Among the items destroyed was the 3,000-volume collection of the Library of Congress and the intricate decorations of the neoclassical columns pediments and sculptures Later though former president Thomas Jefferson donated his personal book collection to start a new Library of Congress, originally designed by William Thornton in 1793 and Benjamin Latrobe in 1803 the wooden ceilings and floors burned and the glass skylights melted because of the intense heat. But the building was not a complete loss the House rotunda the east lobby the staircases and Latrobe's famous Corn-Cob Columns in the Senate entrance hall all survived the Superintendent of the Public Buildings of the City of Washington Thomas Munroe concluded that the loss to the Capitol amounted to $787,163.28 with $457,388.36 for the North wing and main building and $329,774.92 for the South wing. Slaveholders included people of African ancestry an African former indentured servant who settled in Virginia in 1621 Anthony Johnson became one of the earliest documented slave owners in the mainland American colonies when he won a civil suit for ownership of John Casor in 1830 there were 3,775 such black slaveholders in the South who owned a total of 12,760 slaves a small percent out of a total of over 2 million slaves. 80% of the black slaveholders were located in Louisiana South Carolina Virginia and Maryland, 1 Reasons 9 External links, Main article: Slave codes 14.3 Military The outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861 led to the expansion of the federal government and notable growth in the District's population including a large influx of freed slaves. President Abraham Lincoln signed the Compensated Emancipation Act in 1862 which ended slavery in the District of Columbia and freed about 3,100 enslaved persons nine months prior to the Emancipation Proclamation in 1868 Congress granted the District's African American male residents the right to vote in municipal elections. . 7.1 North Branch Potomac River, Finley General Hospital, In July 1845 Polk sent General Zachary Taylor to Texas and by October 3,500 Americans were on the Nueces River ready to take by force the disputed land Polk wanted to protect the border and also coveted for the U.S the continent clear to the Pacific Ocean At the same time Polk wrote to the American consul in the Mexican territory of Alta California disclaiming American ambitions in California but offering to support independence from Mexico or voluntary accession to the United States and warning that the United States would oppose a British or French takeover. 3 Passage 1.1 Foundation Further information: List of capitals in the United States In February 1768 the Assembly of Massachusetts Bay issued a circular letter to the other colonies urging them to coordinate resistance the governor dissolved the assembly when it refused to rescind the letter Meanwhile a riot broke out in Boston in June 1768 over the seizure of the sloop Liberty owned by John Hancock for alleged smuggling Customs officials were forced to flee prompting the British to deploy troops to Boston a Boston town meeting declared that no obedience was due to parliamentary laws and called for the convening of a convention a convention assembled but only issued a mild protest before dissolving itself in January 1769 Parliament responded to the unrest by reactivating the Treason Act 1543 which called for subjects outside the realm to face trials for treason in England the governor of Massachusetts was instructed to collect evidence of said treason and the threat caused widespread outrage though it was not carried out.