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6.2 Mammals 7 The Potomac River System Demonym(s) Washingtonian Following their victory at the Battle of Bladensburg the British entered Washington D.C burning down buildings including the White House. ; Northwestern Mexico The U Street Corridor in Northwest D.C known as "Washington's Black Broadway" is home to institutions like the Howard Theatre Bohemian Caverns and the Lincoln Theatre which hosted music legends such as Washington-native Duke Ellington John Coltrane and Miles Davis. Washington has its own native music genre called go-go; a post-funk percussion-driven flavor of rhythm and blues that was popularized in the late 1970s by D.C band leader Chuck Brown. . . The National Gallery of Art is one of the largest art museums in the world, By January 1 1808 when Congress banned further imports South Carolina was the only state that still allowed importation of slaves Congress allowed continued trade only in slaves who were descendants of those currently in the United States in addition US citizens could participate financially in the international slave trade and the outfitting of ships for that trade the domestic slave trade became extremely profitable as demand rose with the expansion of cultivation in the Deep South for cotton and sugar cane crops Slavery in the United States became more or less self-sustaining by natural increase among the current slaves and their descendants. Washington D.C. Business Directory, Beginning in the 19th century with increasing mining and agriculture upstream and urban sewage and runoff downstream the water quality of the Potomac River deteriorated This created conditions of severe eutrophication It is said that President Abraham Lincoln used to escape to the highlands on summer nights to escape the river's stench in the 1960s with dense green algal blooms covering the river's surface President Lyndon Johnson declared the river "a national disgrace" and set in motion a long-term effort to reduce pollution from sewage and restore the beauty and ecology of this historic river One of significant pollution control projects at the time was the expansion of the Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant which serves Washington and several surrounding communities. Enactment of the 1972 Clean Water Act led to construction or expansion of additional sewage treatment plants in the Potomac watershed Controls on phosphorus one of the principal contributors to eutrophication were implemented in the 1980s through sewage plant upgrades and restrictions on phosphorus in detergents. Mexico's military and diplomatic capabilities declined after it attained independence from Spain in 1821 and left the northern one-half of the country vulnerable to the Comanche Apache and Navajo native Americans the Comanche in particular took advantage of the Mexican state to undertake large-scale raids hundreds of miles into the country to acquire livestock for their own use and to supply an expanding market in Texas and the U.S, At the beginning of the war some Union commanders thought they were supposed to return escaped slaves to their masters by 1862 when it became clear that this would be a long war the question of what to do about slavery became more general the Southern economy and military effort depended on slave labor it began to seem unreasonable to protect slavery while blockading Southern commerce and destroying Southern production as Congressman George W Julian of Indiana put it in an 1862 speech in Congress the slaves "cannot be neutral as laborers if not as soldiers they will be allies of the rebels or of the Union." Julian and his fellow Radical Republicans put pressure on Lincoln to rapidly emancipate the slaves whereas moderate Republicans came to accept gradual compensated emancipation and colonization. Copperheads the border states and War Democrats opposed emancipation although the border states and War Democrats eventually accepted it as part of total war needed to save the Union, On March 1 1847 Alexander W Doniphan occupied Chihuahua City British consul John Potts did not want to let Doniphan search Governor Trias's mansion and unsuccessfully asserted it was under British protection American merchants in Chihuahua wanted the American force to stay in order to protect their business Major William Gilpin advocated a march on Mexico City and convinced a majority of officers but Doniphan subverted this plan Then in late April Taylor ordered the First Missouri Mounted Volunteers to leave Chihuahua and join him at Saltillo the American merchants either followed or returned to Santa Fe Along the way the townspeople of Parras enlisted Doniphan's aid against an Indian raiding party that had taken children horses mules and money.

. While no southern state abolished slavery for a period individual owners could free their slaves by personal decision often providing for manumission in wills but sometimes filing deeds or court papers to free individuals Numerous slaveholders who freed their slaves cited revolutionary ideals in their documents; others freed slaves as a reward for service Records also suggest that some slaveholders were freeing their own mixed-race children born into slavery to slave mothers. Further information: Abolition of slavery timeline and List of notable opponents of slavery, Prior to the Republican convention the Lincoln campaign began cultivating a nationwide youth organization the Wide Awakes which it used to generate popular support throughout the country to spearhead voter registration drives thinking that new voters and young voters tended to embrace new parties. Lincoln's ideas of abolishing slavery grew drawing more supporters People of the Northern states knew the Southern states would vote against Lincoln and rallied supporters for Lincoln. The Potomac River brings together a variety of cultures throughout the watershed from the coal miners of upstream West Virginia to the urban residents of the nation's capital and along the lower Potomac the watermen of Virginia's Northern Neck, John Dickinson authored the first draft of the Articles of Confederation in 1776 while serving in the Continental Congress as a delegate from Pennsylvania and signed them late the following year after being elected to Congress as a delegate from Delaware. Subsequent events in the lives of the Founding Fathers after the adoption of the Constitution were characterized by success or failure reflecting the abilities of these men as well as the vagaries of fate. Washington Adams Jefferson Madison and Monroe served in highest U.S office of president Jay would be appointed as president of the United States and later elected to two terms as Governor of New York! Valley Forge Main article: 1864 United States presidential election, United States Army, Escaped slaves ca 1862 at the headquarters of General Lafayette.