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Washington D.C. Business Directory, Daniel Roberdeau Pennsylvania 1 Yes The National Mall is a large open park in downtown Washington between the Lincoln Memorial and the United States Capitol Given its prominence the mall is often the location of political protests concerts festivals and presidential inaugurations the Washington Monument and the Jefferson Pier are near the center of the mall south of the White House Also on the mall are the National World War II Memorial at the east end of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool the Korean War Veterans Memorial and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Myanmar (Burma): Naypyidaw was designated the national capital in 2005 the same year it was founded but most government offices and embassies are still located in Yangon (Rangoon). Events The architecture of Washington varies greatly Six of the top 10 buildings in the American Institute of Architects' 2007 ranking of "America's Favorite Architecture" are in the District of Columbia: the White House the Washington National Cathedral the Thomas Jefferson Memorial the United States Capitol the Lincoln Memorial and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial the neoclassical Georgian gothic and modern architectural styles are all reflected among those six structures and many other prominent edifices in Washington Notable exceptions include buildings constructed in the French Second Empire style such as the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, Federal capital city and federal district, Main article: 1864 United States presidential election! Northern antislavery elements feared the expansion of the Southern Slave Power; Whigs generally wanted to strengthen the economy with industrialization not expand it with more land Among the most vocal opposing the war in the House of Representatives was John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts Adams had first voiced concerns about expanding into Mexican territory in 1836 when he opposed Texas annexation He continued this argument in 1846 for the same reason War with Mexico would add new slavery territory to the nation When the vote to go to war with Mexico came to a vote on May 13 Adams spoke a resounding "No!" in the chamber Only 13 others followed his lead However he later voted for war appropriations.:151, Washington D.C is located in the mid-Atlantic region of the U.S East Coast Due to the District of Columbia retrocession the city has a total area of 68.34 square miles (177.0 km2) of which 61.05 square miles (158.1 km2) is land and 7.29 square miles (18.9 km2) (10.67%) is water the District is bordered by Montgomery County Maryland to the northwest; Prince George's County Maryland to the east; Arlington County Virginia to the south; and Alexandria Virginia to the west, World War II further increased government activity adding to the number of federal employees in the capital; by 1950 the District's population reached its peak of 802,178 residents. Date Slaves Excluding slaves the 1860 U.S population was 27,167,529 yielding about 1 in 70 free persons (1.5%) being slaveholders by counting only named slaveowners this approach does not acknowledge people who benefited from slavery by being in a slaveowning household e.g the wife and children of an owner 8% of all US families owned slaves, while in the South 33% of families owned slaves According to historian Joseph Glatthaar the number of soldiers of the Confederacy's Army of Northern Virginia who either owned slaves or came from slave owning households is "almost one of every two 1861 recruits" in addition he notes that "Untold numbers of enlistees rented land from sold crops to or worked for slaveholders in the final tabulation the vast majority of the volunteers of 1861 had a direct connection to slavery.". Slaves processing tobacco in 17th-century Virginia 5.1 Institutions formed by Founders Flora of the Potomac River Basin!

Main articles: George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River Battle of Trenton and Battle of Princeton Proponents of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution knew that without legislation that codified the 13th Amendment in the form of laws and statutes along with law enforcement agencies to uphold the laws there would be no true end to slavery and this is the reason for the inclusion of Section 2 of the 13th Amendment authorizing Congress to establish laws upholding the amendment the federal government also sent troops to the south to provide protection to the former slaves who were still living among their former masters. . Slaves and slavery are mentioned only indirectly in the 1787 Constitution for example Article 1 Section 2 Clause 3 prescribes that "three fifths of all other Persons" are to be counted for the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives and direct taxes Additionally in Article 4 Section 2 Clause 3 slaves are referred to as "persons held in service or labor" the Founding Fathers however did make important efforts to contain slavery Many Northern states had adopted legislation to end or significantly reduce slavery during and after the American Revolution in 1782 Virginia passed a manumission law that allowed slave owners to free their slaves by will or deed. As a result thousands of slaves were manumitted in Virginia. Thomas Jefferson in 1784 proposed to ban slavery in all the Western Territories which failed to pass Congress by one vote. Partially following Jefferson's plan Congress did ban slavery in the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 for lands north of the Ohio River, The most famous group of deserters from the U S Army was the Saint Patrick's Battalion or (San Patricios) composed primarily of several hundred immigrant soldiers the majority Catholic Irish and German immigrants who deserted the U.S Army because of ill-treatment or sympathetic leanings to fellow Mexican Catholics and joined the Mexican army the battalion also included Canadians English French Italians Poles Scots Spaniards Swiss and Mexican people many of whom were members of the Catholic Church, 14.6 Primary sources Bureau of Engraving and Printing portrait of Lincoln as president. Main articles: Dred Scott v Sandford and Freedom suits Judiciary Square General Hospital There is no record of early settlers having observed marine mammals in the Potomac but several sightings of Atlantic Bottle-nosed Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) were reported during the 19th century in July 1844 a pod of 14 adults and young was followed up the river by men in boats as high as the Aqueduct Bridge (approximately the same location occupied by Key Bridge today).