George Walton Georgia 1 Yes Texas Campaign, The Constitution enumerates the powers of Congress in detail in addition other congressional powers have been granted or confirmed by constitutional amendments the Thirteenth (1865) Fourteenth (1868) and Fifteenth Amendments (1870) gave Congress authority to enact legislation to enforce rights of African Americans including voting rights due process and equal protection under the law. Generally militia forces are controlled by state governments not Congress, Washington dealt with major problems the old Confederation lacked the powers to handle its workload and had weak leadership no executive a small bureaucracy of clerks a large debt worthless paper money and no power to establish taxes. He had the task of assembling an executive department and relied on Tobias Lear for advice selecting its officers. Great Britain refused to relinquish its forts in the American West and Barbary pirates preyed on American merchant ships in the Mediterranean at a time when the United States did not even have a navy. Controlling for inflation prices of slaves rose dramatically in the six decades prior to Civil War reflecting demand due to commodity cotton as well as use of slaves in shipping and industry Although the prices of slaves relative to indentured servants declined both got more expensive Cotton production was rising and relied on the use of slaves to yield high profits Fogel and Engeman initially argued that if the Civil War had not happened the slave prices would have increased even more an average of more than 50 percent by 1890.:96. 7.2 Civil War 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, A separate British force captured Alexandria on the south side of the Potomac River while Ross's troops were leaving Washington the mayor of Alexandria made a deal and the British refrained from burning the town. .
Painting by Howard Chandler Christy depicting the signing of the Constitution of the United States with Washington as the presiding officer standing at right. Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States by Howard Chandler Christy 1940 Washington is the presiding officer standing at right. . At the beginning of the war Washington's only defense was one old fort (Fort Washington 12 miles (19 km) away to the south) and the Union Army soldiers themselves. When Maj Gen George B McClellan assumed command of the Department of the Potomac on August 17 1861 he became responsible for the capital's defense. McClellan began by laying out lines for a complete ring of entrenchments and fortifications that would cover 33 miles (53 km) of land He built enclosed forts on high hills around the city and placed well-protected batteries of field artillery in the gaps between these forts, augmenting the 88 guns already placed on the defensive line facing Virginia and south in between these batteries interconnected rifle pits were dug allowing highly effective co-operative fire. This layout once complete would make the city one of the most heavily defended locations in the world and almost unassailable by nearly any number of men, Ad for the Federalist, Both parties deprecated war but one of them would make war rather than let the Nation survive and the other would accept war rather than let it perish and the war came. Congress also plays a role in presidential elections Both Houses meet in joint session on the sixth day of January following a presidential election to count the electoral votes and there are procedures to follow if no candidate wins a majority, the American Civil War Governing bodies 2.4 Airline lounges Lincoln in February 1865 two months before his death. . . .
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