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9 Native Americans The Guianas (British Dutch French) 4.2% The city became the staging area for what became the Manassas Campaign When Brig Gen Irvin McDowell's beaten and demoralized army staggered back into Washington after the stunning Confederate victory at the First Battle of Bull Run the realization came that the war might be prolonged and efforts began to fortify the city in case of a Confederate assault Lincoln knew he had to have a professional and trained army to protect the Capital area and therefore began by organizing the Department on the Potomac on August 4 1861, and the Army of the Potomac 16 days later. . Benjamin Franklin an early advocate of colonial unity was a foundational figure in defining the U.S ethos and exemplified the emerging nation's ideals. On March 21 1861 Vice President Alexander Stephens of the Confederacy delivered his Cornerstone Speech He explained the differences between the constitution of the Confederate Republic and that of the United States and laid out the cause for the American Civil War and a defense of slavery, Post-constitution life Canberra Australia (1927) Historians in the 20th century identified 250 to 311 slave uprisings in U.S and colonial history. Those after 1776 include:. The last remaining founders also poetically called the "Last of the Romans" lived well into the nineteenth century the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence was Charles Carroll of Carrollton who died in 1832 the last surviving member of the Continental Congress was John Armstrong Jr who died in 1843 He gained this distinction in 1838 upon the death of the only other surviving delegate Paine Wingate.

Washington Dulles Stephen Hopkins Rhode Island 2 Yes Yes, Further information: Indian slave trade History of enslavement of indigenous peoples in California and Slavery in New France, Washington D.C. Business Directory. Congress's "power of the purse" authorizes taxing citizens spending money and printing currency. The Eisenhower Executive Office Building once the world's largest office building houses the Executive Office of the President of the United States! . Major-General Robert Ross British commander who led the attack on Washington, 2.4 Occupations Issues For 400 years Maryland and Virginia have disputed control of the Potomac and its North Branch since both states' original colonial charters grant the entire river rather than half of it as is normally the case with boundary rivers in its first state constitution adopted in 1776 Virginia ceded its claim to the entire river but reserved free use of it an act disputed by Maryland Both states acceded to the Compact of 1785 and the 1877 Black-Jenkins Award which grants Maryland the river bank-to-bank from the low water mark on the Virginia side while permitting Virginia full riparian rights short of obstructing navigation, Caesar Rodney Delaware 2 Yes Yes The founding fathers were not unified on the issue of slavery in her study of Thomas Jefferson historian Annette Gordon-Reed discusses this topic "Others of the founders held slaves but no other founder drafted the charter for freedom" in addition to Jefferson George Washington John Jay and many other of the Founding Fathers practiced slavery but were also conflicted by the institution which many saw as immoral and politically divisive. Conversely many founders such as Samuel Adams and John Adams were against slavery their entire lives Benjamin Rush wrote a pamphlet in 1773 which harshly condemned slavery and beseeched the colonists to petition the king and put an end to the British African Company of Merchants which kept slavery and the slave trade going the Continental Association of 1774 contains a clause severely limiting the slave trade as part of the general boycott of British trade; . . James Hopkinson's Plantation Planting sweet potatoes ca 1862/63 Further information: Ancestry of George Washington and British America.