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Northern philanthropists continued to support black education in the 20th century even as tensions rose within the black community exemplified by Booker T Washington and W E B Du Bois as to the proper emphasis between industrial and classical academic education at the college level an example of a major donor to Hampton Institute and Tuskegee was George Eastman who also helped fund health programs at colleges and in communities. Collaborating with Washington in the early decades of the 20th century philanthropist Julius Rosenwald provided matching funds for community efforts to build rural schools for black children He insisted on white and black cooperation in the effort wanting to ensure that white-controlled school boards made a commitment to maintain the schools By the 1930s local parents had helped raise funds (sometimes donating labor and land) to create over 5,000 rural schools in the South Other philanthropists such as Henry H Rogers and Andrew Carnegie each of whom had arisen from modest roots to become wealthy used matching fund grants to stimulate local development of libraries and schools, Washington D.C. Business Directory, In the final months of his presidency Washington was assailed by his political foes and a partisan press who accused him of being ambitious and greedy while he argued that he had taken no salary during the war and had risked his life in battle He regarded the press as a disuniting "diabolical" force of falsehoods sentiments that he expressed in his Farewell Address. At the end of his second term Washington retired for personal and political reasons dismayed with personal attacks and to ensure that a truly contested presidential election could be held He did not feel bound to a two-term limit but his retirement set a significant precedent Washington is often credited with setting the principal of a two-term presidency but it was Thomas Jefferson who first refused to run for a third term on political grounds! The term Founding Fathers is sometimes used to refer to the Signers of the embossed version of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Signers is not be confused with the term Framers; the Framers are defined by the National Archives as those 55 individuals who were appointed to be delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention and took part in drafting the proposed Constitution of the United States Of the 55 Framers only 39 were signers of the Constitution. Two further groupings of Founding Fathers include: 1) those who signed the Continental Association a trade ban and one of the colonists' first collective volleys protesting British control and the Intolerable Acts in 1774, or 2) those who signed the Articles of Confederation the first U.S constitutional document! 2.1 Governing bodies Republicanism The river has two sources the source of the North Branch is at the Fairfax Stone located at the junction of Grant Tucker and Preston counties in West Virginia the source of the South Branch is located near Hightown in northern Highland County Virginia the river's two branches converge just east of Green Spring in Hampshire County West Virginia to form the Potomac As it flows from its headwaters down to the Chesapeake Bay the Potomac traverses five geological provinces: the Appalachian Plateau the Ridge and Valley the Blue Ridge the Piedmont Plateau and the Atlantic coastal plain, Washington D.C. Business Directory, Washington D.C. Business Directory The remaining rural territory within the district belonged either to Alexandria County D.C (district land west of the Potomac outside the City of Alexandria formerly in Virginia) or to Washington County D.C (the unincorporated east side formerly in Maryland plus islands and riverbed) Both counties operated with boards of commissioners for county-level government functions Both counties were governed by levy courts made of providentially appointed Justices of the Peace Prior to 1812 the levy courts had a number of members defined by the President but after that Washington County had 7 members in 1848 the Washington County levy court was expanded to 11 members and in 1863 that was reduced by two to nine members! Main article: Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War See also: Federalist Party Annapolis Convention (1786) and United States Bill of Rights. . Dred Scott In 1861 Lincoln expressed the fear that premature attempts at emancipation would mean the loss of the border states He believed that "to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game." at first Lincoln reversed attempts at emancipation by Secretary of War Simon Cameron and Generals John C Fremont (in Missouri) and David Hunter (in South Carolina Georgia and Florida) to keep the loyalty of the border states and the War Democrats. Missouri Compromise Washington has had a significant African American population since the city's foundation. African American residents composed about 30% of the District's total population between 1800 and 1940 the black population reached a peak of 70% by 1970 but has since steadily declined due to many African Americans moving to the surrounding suburbs Partly as a result of gentrification there was a 31.4% increase in the non-Hispanic white population and an 11.5% decrease in the black population between 2000 and 2010.

! . Current D.C teams have won a combined eleven professional league championships: the Washington Redskins have won five; D.C United has won four; and the Washington Wizards (then the Washington Bullets) and Washington Capitals have each won a single championship, Confederate troops crossing the fords of the Potomac in early September 1862 for the invasion of Maryland which would culminate in the Battle of Antietam (Print of a wood carving based on a drawing by Thomas Nast; first published in the September 27 1862 edition of Harper's Weekly.), King's College (now Columbia): John Jay Alexander Hamilton Gouverneur Morris Robert R Livingston and Egbert Benson!