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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, Judicial appointments Nauru: Nauru a microstate of only 21 square kilometres (8.1 sq mi) has no distinct capital city but has a capital district instead. Washington D.C. Business Directory Simon Legree and Uncle Tom: a scene from Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) an influential abolitionist novel. . Congress immediately adjourned for the day upon news of Washington's death and the Speaker's chair was shrouded in black the next morning the funeral was held four days after his death on December 18 1799 at Mount Vernon where his body was interred Cavalry and foot soldiers led the procession and six colonels served as the pallbearers the Mount Vernon funeral service was restricted mostly to family and friends. Reverend Thomas Davis read the funeral service by the vault with a brief address followed by a ceremony performed by various members of Washington's Masonic lodge in Alexandria Virginia. Congress chose Light-Horse Harry Lee to deliver the eulogy Word of his death traveled slowly; church bells rang in the cities and many places of business closed. People worldwide admired Washington and were saddened by his death and memorial processions were held in major cities of the United States Martha wore a black mourning cape for one year and she burned their correspondence to protect their privacy Only five letters between the couple are known to have survived two letters from Martha to George and three from him to her! The U.S Congress approved the declaration of war on May 13 1846 after a few hours of debate with southern Democrats in strong support Sixty-seven Whigs voted against the war on a key slavery amendment, but on the final passage only 14 Whigs voted no, including Rep John Quincy Adams. On the U.S side the war was fought by regiments of regulars and various regiments battalions and companies of volunteers from the different states of the Union as well as Americans and some Mexicans in the California and New Mexico territories On the West Coast the US Navy fielded a battalion of sailors in an attempt to recapture Los Angeles. Although the US Army and Navy were not large at the outbreak of the war the officers were generally well trained and the numbers of enlisted men fairly large compared to Mexico's At the beginning of the war the US Army had eight regiments of infantry (three battalions each) four artillery regiments and three mounted regiments (two dragoons one of mounted rifles) These regiments were supplemented by 10 new regiments (nine of infantry and one of cavalry) raised for one year of service by the act of Congress from February 11 1847. By the 1980s the original design featuring mobile lounges to meet each plane was no longer well-suited to Dulles' role as a hub airport Instead midfield concourses were added to allow passengers to walk between connecting flights without visiting the main terminal Mobile lounges were still used for international flights and to transport passengers between the midfield concourses and the main terminal an underground tunnel (consisting of a passenger walkway and moving sidewalks) which links the main terminal and Concourse B was opened in 2004 the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) began a renovation program for the airport including a new security mezzanine with more room for lines, Many national capitals are also the largest city in their respective countries but in many countries this is not the case.

The revolution could divide families such as William Franklin son of Benjamin Franklin and royal governor of the Province of New Jersey who remained loyal to the Crown throughout the war He and his father never spoke again. Recent immigrants who had not been fully Americanized were also inclined to support the King such as Flora MacDonald who was a Scottish settler in the back country, 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, Before returning to private life in June 1783 Washington called for a strong union Though he was concerned that he might be criticized for meddling in civil matters he sent a circular letter to all the states maintaining that the Articles of Confederation was no more than "a rope of sand" linking the states He believed that the nation was on the verge of "anarchy and confusion" was vulnerable to foreign intervention and that a national constitution would unify the states under a strong central government. When Shays' Rebellion erupted in Massachusetts on August 29 1786 over taxation Washington was further convinced that a national constitution was needed. Some nationalists feared that the new republic had descended into lawlessness and they met together on September 11 1786 at Annapolis to ask Congress to revise the Articles of Confederation One of their biggest efforts however was getting Washington to attend. Congress agreed to a Constitutional Convention to be held in Philadelphia in Spring 1787 and each state was to send delegates. . !