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Tallahassee Florida chosen as the midpoint between Pensacola and St Augustine Florida - then the two largest cities in Florida, Other important legislation involved two measures to raise revenues for the Federal government: tariffs (a policy with long precedent) and a Federal income tax in 1861 Lincoln signed the second and third Morrill Tariffs following the first enacted by Buchanan Also in 1861 Lincoln signed the Revenue Act of 1861 creating the first U.S income tax.:424 This created a flat tax of 3 percent on incomes above $800 ($22,300 in current dollar terms) the Revenue Act of 1862 adopted rates that increased with income.:111, 2.1.1 Colleges attended The British strategy in America now concentrated on a campaign in the southern states With fewer regular troops at their disposal the British commanders saw the "southern strategy" as a more viable plan as they perceived the south as strongly Loyalist with a large population of recent immigrants and large numbers of slaves who might be captured or run away to join the British; Texas Campaign 16.2.1 Video Justice Nominated Appointed, Part of the Politics series on, The shock of Union defeat at First Bull Run with demoralized troops wandering the streets of the capital caused President Lincoln to order extensive fortifications and a large garrison This required an influx of troops military suppliers and building contractors which would set up a new demand for accommodation including military hospitals the abolition of slavery in D.C in 1862 also attracted many freedmen to the city Except for one attempted invasion by Confederate cavalry leader Jubal Early in 1864 the capital remained impregnable. Main article: Structure of the United States Congress Originally Washington had planned to retire after his first term while many Americans could not imagine anyone else taking his place. After nearly four years as President and dealing with the infighting in his own cabinet and with partisan critics Washington showed little enthusiasm in running for a second term while Martha also wanted him not to run. James Madison urged him not to retire that his absence would only allow the dangerous political rift in his cabinet and in the House to worsen Jefferson also pleaded with him not to retire and agreed to drop his attacks on Hamilton or he would also retire if Washington did. Hamilton maintained that Washington's absence would be "deplored as the greatest evil" to the country at this time. During this time Washington's close nephew George Augustine Washington his manager at Mount Vernon was critically ill and had to be replaced further increasing Washington's desire to retire and return to Mount Vernon. Slaves on J J Smith's cotton plantation near Beaufort South Carolina photographed by Timothy O'Sullivan standing before their quarters in 1862, Washington D.C. Business Directory Union nationalism as envisioned by Lincoln "helped lead America to the nationalism of Theodore Roosevelt Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.":222. To help regulate the relationship between slave and owner including legal support for keeping the slave as property states established slave codes most based on laws existing since the colonial era the code for the District of Columbia defined a slave as "a human being who is by law deprived of his or her liberty for life and is the property of another", Clymer was a member of the Philadelphia Committee of Safety and the Continental Congress, Association of Caribbean States: Port of Spain Cabinet and executive departments. Specializations District of Columbia Retrocession to Maryland: as Arlington County in 1846 was retroceded to Virginia proponents believe the rest of the District of Columbia with the exception of a small strip of land around the Capitol and the White House would be given back to Maryland allowing for DC residents to become Maryland residents as they were prior to the Residence Act of 1790, United States Congress meeting c 1915, Finley General Hospital William Clingan Pennsylvania 1 Yes Library of Congress Jefferson Building.

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