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Finland: During the summer the President resides at the Kultaranta in Naantali; presidential sessions of the government are held there as well. The source of the North Branch Potomac River is at the Fairfax Stone located at the junction of Grant Tucker and Preston counties in West Virginia. Washington had an estimated population of 702,455 as of July 2018, making it the 20th most populous city in the United States Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the city's daytime population to more than one million during the workweek. Washington's metropolitan area the country's sixth largest had a 2017 estimated population of 6.2 million residents. History[show] In 1864 Confederate general Jubal Early raided Washington D.C while Lincoln watched from an exposed position; Captain Oliver Wendell Holmes shouted at him "Get down you damn fool before you get shot!":434. .

Most Washington citizens embraced the arriving troops although there were pockets of apathy and Southern sympathy Upon hearing a Union regiment singing "John Brown's Body" as the soldiers marched beneath her window resident Julia Ward Howe wrote the patriotic "Battle Hymn of the Republic" to the same tune; 10.2 Utilities Main article: Transportation in Washington D.C, John Dickinson authored the first draft of the Articles of Confederation in 1776 while serving in the Continental Congress as a delegate from Pennsylvania and signed them late the following year after being elected to Congress as a delegate from Delaware, Impact of the war in Mexico. The Sons of Liberty were formed in 1765 They used public demonstrations boycott violence and threats of violence to ensure that the British tax laws were unenforceable in Boston the Sons of Liberty burned the records of the vice admiralty court and looted the home of chief justice Thomas Hutchinson Several legislatures called for united action and nine colonies sent delegates to the Stamp Act Congress in New York City in October 1765 Moderates led by John Dickinson drew up a "Declaration of Rights and Grievances" stating that taxes passed without representation violated their rights as Englishmen Colonists emphasized their determination by boycotting imports of British merchandise. Political representation Nevertheless the Supreme Court has treated campaign contributions as a free speech issue. Some see money as a good influence in politics since it "enables candidates to communicate with voters". Few members retire from Congress without complaining about how much it costs to campaign for reelection. Critics contend that members of Congress are more likely to attend to the needs of heavy campaign contributors than to ordinary citizens, Religion In 1800 Spain's colonial province of Texas (Tejas) had few inhabitants with only about 7,000 non-Indian settlers the Spanish crown developed a policy of colonization to more effectively control the territory After independence the Mexican government implemented the policy granting Moses Austin a banker from Missouri a large tract of land in Texas Austin died before he could bring his plan of recruiting American settlers for the land to fruition but his son Stephen F Austin brought over 300 American families into Texas. This started the steady trend of migration from the United States into the Texas frontier Austin's colony was the most successful of several colonies authorized by the Mexican government the Mexican government intended the new settlers to act as a buffer between the Tejano residents and the Comanches but the non-Hispanic colonists tended to settle where there was decent farmland and trade connections with American Louisiana which the United States had acquired in the Louisiana Purchase rather than further west where they would have been an effective buffer against the Indians.