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Farewell Address In the early part of the 19th century other organizations were founded to take action on the future of black Americans Some advocated removing free black people from the United States to places where they would enjoy greater freedom; some endorsed colonization in Africa while others advocated emigration During the 1820s and 1830s the American Colonization Society (ACS) was the primary organization to implement the "return" of black Americans to Africa the ACS was made up mostly of Quakers and slaveholders who found uneasy common ground in support of "repatriation" But by this time most black Americans were native-born and did not want to emigrate; rather they wanted full rights in the United States where their people had lived and worked for generations, 1870 0 4,880,009 4,880,009 100% 38,558,371 13% Thomas Stone Maryland 1 Yes, Republicanism View of the Potomac River from George Washington's birthplace in Westmoreland County Virginia. Many Founders deliberately avoided public discussion of their faith Historian David L Holmes uses evidence gleaned from letters government documents and second-hand accounts to identify their religious beliefs. Its trans-state location reflected a compromise between the Southern and Northern states Virginia lobbied for the selection an idea opposed by New York and Pennsylvania both of which had previously housed the nation's capital Maryland whose State House was older than that of Virginia and like Virginia a slave state was chosen as a compromise at Washington's request the City of Alexandria was included in the District though with the provision that no federal buildings could be built there the new capital district was at about the center of the country. Schools of thought[show], Wilmot Proviso Dams on the Potomac River Lawrence's service as adjutant general of the Virginia militia inspired Washington to seek a commission and Virginia's Lieutenant Governor Robert Dinwiddie appointed him as a major in December 1752 and as commander of one of the four militia districts the British and French were competing for control of the Ohio Valley at the time the British building forts along the Ohio River and the French doing likewise between Lake Erie and the Ohio River. . 2 Geography Valletta Malta (1571) Colonel George Washington by Charles Willson Peale 1772. Washington taking command of the Continental Army just before the Siege, The British also took New Jersey pushing the Continental Army into Pennsylvania Washington crossed the Delaware River back into New Jersey in a surprise attack in late December 1776 and defeated the Hessian and British armies at Trenton and Princeton thereby regaining control of most of New Jersey the victories gave an important boost to Patriots at a time when morale was flagging and they have become iconic events of the war. .

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