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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. Article One Section Eight of the Constitution permits the establishment of a "District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may by cession of particular states and the acceptance of Congress become the seat of the government of the United States". However the Constitution does not specify a location for the capital in what is now known as the Compromise of 1790 Madison Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson came to an agreement that the federal government would pay each state's remaining Revolutionary War debts in exchange for establishing the new national capital in the southern United States.[a], Thomas Johnson Maryland 1 Yes 9.1 Native Americans as slaves King's College (now Columbia): John Jay Alexander Hamilton Gouverneur Morris Robert R Livingston and Egbert Benson. Washington D.C. Business Directory There is also a ghost town which is currently the de jure capital of a territory: Plymouth in Montserrat, By the end of the 20th century notable success had been achieved as massive algal blooms vanished and recreational fishing and boating rebounded Still the aquatic habitat of the Potomac River and its tributaries remain vulnerable to eutrophication heavy metals pesticides and other toxic chemicals over-fishing alien species and pathogens associated with fecal coliform bacteria and shellfish diseases in 2005 two federal agencies the US Geological Survey and the Fish and Wildlife Service began to identify fish in the Potomac and tributaries that exhibited "intersex" characteristics as a result of endocrine disruption caused by some form of pollution. . Caning of Charles Sumner, Washington decided that "The Government of the United States are determined that their Administration of Indian Affairs shall be directed entirely by the great principles of Justice and humanity" and provided that their land interests should be negotiated by treaties the administration regarded powerful tribes as foreign nations and Washington even smoked a peace pipe and drank wine with them at the Philadelphia presidential house. He made numerous attempts to conciliate them; he equated killing indigenous peoples with killing Whites and sought to integrate them into European American culture. Secretary of War Henry Knox also attempted to encourage agriculture among the tribes, View of the United States Capitol from the United States Supreme Court building. In 1735 the Georgia Trustees enacted a law prohibiting slavery in the new colony which had been established in 1733 to enable the "worthy poor" as well as persecuted European Protestants to have a new start Slavery was then legal in the other twelve English colonies Neighboring South Carolina had an economy based on the use of enslaved labor the Georgia Trustees wanted to eliminate the risk of slave rebellions and make Georgia better able to defend against attacks from the Spanish to the south who offered freedom to escaped slaves James Edward Oglethorpe was the driving force behind the colony and the only trustee to reside in Georgia He opposed slavery on moral grounds as well as for pragmatic reasons and vigorously defended the ban on slavery against fierce opposition from Carolina slave merchants and land speculators.

. Religion California campaign The White House ranked second on the AIA's "List of America's Favorite Architecture". Congress and the public Main article: Battle of Cerro Gordo, 6.3 Birds Coin minted for John Adams in 1782 to celebrate the Netherlands' recognition of the United States as an independent nation one of three coins minted for him; all three are in the coin collection of the Teylers Museum.