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. Fauna of the Potomac River and its Basin With a limited number of professional schools established in the U.S Founders also sought advanced degrees from traditional institutions in England and Scotland such as the University of Edinburgh the University of St Andrews and the University of Glasgow. Structure John Hart New Jersey 2 Yes Slaves and free blacks also fought on the side of rebels during the Revolutionary War Washington authorized slaves to be freed who fought with the American Continental Army Rhode Island started enlisting slaves in 1778 and promised compensation to owners whose slaves enlisted and survived to gain freedom. During the course of the war about one fifth of the northern army was black in 1781 Baron Closen a German officer in the French Royal Deux-Ponts Regiment at the Battle of Yorktown estimated the American army to be about one-quarter black. These men included both former slaves and free blacks. The Great Depression ushered in President Franklin Roosevelt and strong control by Democrats and historic New Deal policies Roosevelt's election in 1932 marked a shift in government power towards the executive branch Numerous New Deal initiatives came from the White House rather than being initiated by Congress the Democratic Party controlled both houses of Congress for many years. During this time Republicans and conservative southern Democrats formed the Conservative Coalition. Democrats maintained control of Congress during World War II. Congress struggled with efficiency in the postwar era partly by reducing the number of standing congressional committees. Southern Democrats became a powerful force in many influential committees although political power alternated between Republicans and Democrats during these years More complex issues required greater specialization and expertise such as space flight and atomic energy policy. Senator Joseph McCarthy exploited the fear of communism during the Second Red Scare and conducted televised hearings in 1960 Democratic candidate John F Kennedy narrowly won the presidency and power shifted again to the Democrats who dominated both houses of Congress until 1994. Unlike in the South slave owners in Utah were required to send their slaves to school. Black slaves did not have to spend as much time in school as Indian slaves! To help regulate the relationship between slave and owner including legal support for keeping the slave as property states established slave codes most based on laws existing since the colonial era the code for the District of Columbia defined a slave as "a human being who is by law deprived of his or her liberty for life and is the property of another". After the Revolution genuinely democratic politics became possible in the former colonies the rights of the people were incorporated into state constitutions Concepts of liberty individual rights equality among men and hostility toward corruption became incorporated as core values of liberal republicanism the greatest challenge to the old order in Europe was the challenge to inherited political power and the democratic idea that government rests on the consent of the governed the example of the first successful revolution against a European empire and the first successful establishment of a republican form of democratically elected government provided a model for many other colonial peoples who realized that they too could break away and become self-governing nations with directly elected representative government.
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