Main article: District of Columbia retrocession Northwestern Mexico, Washington D.C. Business Directory Role of women. On November 6 Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States He was the first Republican president and his victory was entirely due to his support in the North and West; no ballots were cast for him in 10 of the 15 Southern slave states and he won only two of 996 counties in all the Southern states.:61 Lincoln received 1,866,452 votes or 39.8% of the total in a four-way race He won the free Northern states as well as California and Oregon.:350.
There were no laws regarding slavery early in Virginia's history But in 1640 a Virginia court sentenced John Punch an African to slavery after he attempted to flee his service the two whites with whom he fled were sentenced only to an additional year of their indenture and three years' service to the colony. This marked the first legal sanctioning of slavery in the English colonies and was one of the first legal distinctions made between Europeans and Africans, Admiral 10.3 Sources For statistical purposes the District of Columbia is treated as a state-equivalent (and a county-equivalent) by the U.S Census Bureau, Though in reviewing the incidents of my Administration I am unconscious of intentional error I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors Whatever they may be I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend I shall also carry with me the hope that my country will never cease to view them with indulgence and that after forty-five years of my life dedicated to its service with an upright zeal the faults of incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest. . . . Interpretations vary concerning the effect of the Revolution Contemporaries of the period referred to it as "the revolution", although the war is sometimes known as the "American War of Independence" outside the United States particularly in the United Kingdom, Washington D.C. Business Directory.
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