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During the ensuing battle the U.S breached a wall of the church and directed cannon fire into the interior inflicting many casualties and killing about 150 rebels They captured 400 more men after close hand-to-hand fighting Only seven Americans died in the battle, 14.4 Political and diplomatic Ostend Manifesto Oklahoma City Oklahoma USA (1889) Thomas Stone Maryland 1 Yes A statue of young Lincoln sitting on a stump holding a book open on his lap. . ! This section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed (February 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this template message). Abbreviations DC D.C A 2005 poll found that 78% of Americans did not know that residents of the District of Columbia have less representation in Congress than residents of the 50 states. Efforts to raise awareness about the issue have included campaigns by grassroots organizations and featuring the city's unofficial motto "Taxation Without Representation" on D.C vehicle license plates. There is evidence of nationwide approval for D.C voting rights; various polls indicate that 61 to 82% of Americans believe that D.C should have voting representation in Congress. However despite public support the solution to the problem is not simple, University of St Andrews: Witherspoon (honorary doctorate) 6.1.1 Citizens and representatives Territories (later state borders Gadsden Purchase).

In 1790 Washington sent Brigadier General Josiah Harmar to pacify the Northwest tribes but Little Turtle routed him twice and forced him to withdraw the Western Confederacy of tribes used guerrilla tactics and were an effective force against the sparsely manned American Army Washington sent Major General Arthur St Clair from Fort Washington on an expedition to restore peace in the territory in 1791 On November 4 St Clair's forces were ambushed and soundly defeated by tribal forces with few survivors despite Washington's warning of surprise attacks Washington was outraged over what he viewed to be excessive Native American brutality and execution of captives including women and children, Source:"Distribution of Slaves in US History" Retrieved May 13 2010. One way to categorize lawmakers according to political scientist Richard Fenno is by their general motivation:, Parliament sought to punish Massachusetts colonists for their role in the Boston Tea Party in 1774 by passing the Coersive Acts which Washington referred to as "an Invasion of our Rights and Privileges". He said Americans must not submit to acts of tyranny since "custom and use shall make us as tame and abject slaves as the blacks we rule over with such arbitrary sway". That July he and George Mason drafted a list of resolutions for the Fairfax County committee which Washington chaired and the committee adopted the Fairfax Resolves calling for a Continental Congress. On August 1 Washington attended the First Virginia Convention where he was selected as a delegate to the First Continental Congress as tensions rose in 1774 he assisted in the training of county militias in Virginia and organized enforcement of the Continental Association boycott of British goods instituted by the Congress, The invention of the cotton gin in 1793 enabled the cultivation of short-staple cotton in a wide variety of mainland areas leading to the development of large areas of the Deep South as cotton country in the 19th century Rice cultivation and tobacco were very labor-intensive in 1720 about 65% of South Carolina's population was enslaved. Planters (defined by historians in the Upper South as those who held 20 enslaved people or more) used enslaved workers to cultivate commodity crops They also worked in the artisanal trades on large plantations and in many southern port cities Backwoods subsistence farmers the later wave of settlers in the 18th century who settled along the Appalachian Mountains and backcountry seldom held enslaved people; Caning of Charles Sumner, 6.8.4.1 Battle of Chapultepec 1 Reasons Lincoln's flag-enfolded body was then escorted in the rain to the White House by bareheaded Union officers while the city's church bells rang President Johnson was sworn in at 10:00 am less than 3 hours after Lincoln's death. .