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News media often use the name of a capital city as an alternative name for the country of which it is the capital or of the government that is seated there as a form of metonymy for example "relations between Washington and London" refer to "relations between the United States and the United Kingdom"! Census Taylor takes office, Nullification Crisis The Potomac River System, The American ideology called "republicanism" was inspired by the Whig party in Great Britain which openly criticized the corruption within the British government. Americans were increasingly embracing republican values seeing Britain as corrupt and hostile to American interests the colonists associated political corruption with luxury and inherited aristocracy which they condemned. . Constitution of the United States 6 Congress and the public Washington D.C. Business Directory Two southern states were proposed by Senator John Bell with the assent of Texas in February 1850 New Mexico would get all Texas land north of the 34th parallel north including today's Texas Panhandle while the area to the south including the southeastern part of today's New Mexico would be divided at the Colorado River of Texas into two Southern states balancing the admission of California and New Mexico as free states.

14.2 General histories In 2016 the District's Metropolitan Police Department tallied 135 homicides a 53% increase from 2012 but a 17% decrease from 2015. Many neighborhoods such as Columbia Heights and Logan Circle are becoming safer and vibrant However incidents of robberies and thefts have remained higher in these areas because of increased nightlife activity and greater numbers of affluent residents. Even still citywide reports of both property and violent crimes have declined by nearly half since their most recent highs in the mid-1990s. . West Point espionage About 600,000 slaves were transported to America or 5% of the 12 million slaves taken from Africa About 310,000 of these persons were imported into the Thirteen Colonies before 1776: 40% directly and the rest from the Caribbean, 13.4 Other The First Continental Congress met briefly in Philadelphia Pennsylvania in 1774 consisting of 56 delegates from all thirteen American colonies except Georgia Among them was George Washington who would soon be drawn out of military retirement to command the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War Also in attendance were Patrick Henry and John Adams who like all delegates were elected by their respective colonial assemblies Other delegates included Samuel Adams from Massachusetts John Dickinson from Pennsylvania and New York's John Jay This congress in addition to formulating appeals to the British crown established the Continental Association to administer boycott actions against Britain, War of 1812 The American Enlightenment was a critical precursor of the American Revolution Chief among the ideas of the American Enlightenment were the concepts of Natural Law Natural Rights Consent of the Governed Individualism Property Rights Self-Ownership Self-Determination liberalism republicanism and defense against corruption a growing number of American colonists embraced these views and fostered an intellectual environment which led to a new sense of political and social identity.