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Liberalism Main article: Lobbying in the United States, Schools of thought[show] Battle of Fort Sumter. . . John Wentworth Jr. New Hampshire 1 Yes Indianapolis Indiana USA (1825) Main article: Presidency of George Washington, According to Herbert Aptheker "there were few phases of ante-bellum Southern life and history that were not in some way influenced by the fear of or the actual outbreak of militant concerted slave action.". Nauru: Nauru a microstate of only 21 square kilometres (8.1 sq mi) has no distinct capital city but has a capital district instead.

. Its trans-state location reflected a compromise between the Southern and Northern states Virginia lobbied for the selection an idea opposed by New York and Pennsylvania both of which had previously housed the nation's capital Maryland whose State House was older than that of Virginia and like Virginia a slave state was chosen as a compromise at Washington's request the City of Alexandria was included in the District though with the provision that no federal buildings could be built there the new capital district was at about the center of the country, Many of the Founding Fathers were under 40 years old at the time of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776: Alexander Hamilton was 19 Aaron Burr was 20 Gouverneur Morris was 24 the oldest were Benjamin Franklin 70 and Samuel Whittemore 81.