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James Madison Virginia 1 Yes Bight of Biafra (Igbo Tikar Ibibio Bamileke Bubi) 24.4 Lincoln painstakingly monitored the telegraph reports coming into War Department He tracked all phases of the effort consulted with governors and selected generals based on their success (as well as their state and party) in January 1862 after many complaints of inefficiency and profiteering in the War Department Lincoln replaced Simon Cameron with Edwin Stanton as War Secretary Stanton centralized the War Department's activities auditing and cancelling contracts saving the federal government $17,000,000.:115 Stanton was a staunchly Unionist pro-business conservative Democrat who moved toward the Radical Republican faction He worked more often and more closely with Lincoln than any other senior official "Stanton and Lincoln virtually conducted the war together," say Thomas and Hyman, At Washington's urging Governor Lord Botetourt fulfilled Dinwiddie's 1754 promise of land bounties to all volunteer militia during the French and Indian War in late 1770 Washington inspected the lands in the Ohio and Great Kanawha regions and he engaged surveyor William Crawford to subdivide it Crawford allotted 23,200 acres (9,400 ha) to Washington; Washington told the veterans that their land was hilly and unsuitable for farming and he agreed to purchase 20,147 acres (8,153 ha) leaving some feeling that they had been duped. He also doubled the size of Mount Vernon to 6,500 acres (2,600 ha) and increased its slave population to more than 100 by 1775. 10.2 Citations George Washington presiding over the signing of the United States Constitution Further information: Slave states and free states and Abraham Lincoln and slavery. African-American history and culture scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr wrote:, Main article: Treatment of slaves in the United States, Seal George Taylor Pennsylvania 1 Yes George Washington served as president of the 1787 Constitutional Convention. 14.2 General histories 7.3 Re-election William Montrose Graham Jr.

Escaped slaves ca 1862 at the headquarters of General Lafayette Main article: Early life and career of Abraham Lincoln. On March 4 1865 Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address in it he deemed the endless casualties to be God's will Historian Mark Noll claims this speech to rank "among the small handful of semi-sacred texts by which Americans conceive their place in the world".:426 Lincoln said:, John Hancock Massachusetts 2 Yes Yes It may be said as truly that the American Revolution was an aftermath of the Anglo-French conflict in the New World carried on between 1754 and 1763! Washington D.C. Business Directory, A month before the end of the war Polk was criticized in a United States House of Representatives amendment to a bill praising Major General Zachary Taylor for "a war unnecessarily and unconstitutionally begun by the President of the United States." This criticism in which Congressman Abraham Lincoln played an important role with his Spot Resolutions followed congressional scrutiny of the war's beginnings including factual challenges to claims made by President Polk the vote followed party lines with all Whigs supporting the amendment Lincoln's attack won lukewarm support from fellow Whigs in Illinois but was harshly counter-attacked by Democrats who rallied pro-war sentiments in Illinois; Lincoln's Spot resolutions haunted his future campaigns in the heavily Democratic state of Illinois and were cited by enemies well into his presidency, Further information: Western theater of the American Revolutionary War. James Lovell Massachusetts 1 Yes Abolitionism in the North 6.2 Museums Advance on Mexico City and its capture, The acquisition was a source of controversy especially among U.S politicians who had opposed the war from the start a leading antiwar U.S newspaper the Whig National Intelligencer sardonically concluded that "We take nothing by conquest . Thank God.". Henry David Thoreau spent a night in jail for not paying poll taxes to support the war and later wrote Civil Disobedience, 6.6.2 Second Battle of Tabasco, 10.1 Notes Opponents of D.C voting rights propose that the Founding Fathers never intended for District residents to have a vote in Congress since the Constitution makes clear that representation must come from the states Those opposed to making D.C a state claim that such a move would destroy the notion of a separate national capital and that statehood would unfairly grant Senate representation to a single city particularly one certain to elect Democratic representatives. . Vte On June 26 2008 the Supreme Court of the United States held in District of Columbia v Heller that the city's 1976 handgun ban violated the right to keep and bear arms as protected under the Second Amendment. However the ruling does not prohibit all forms of gun control; laws requiring firearm registration remain in place as does the city's assault weapon ban.