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Background 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. Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 Main articles: Commemoration of the American Revolution and United States Bicentennial Union Station is the city's main train station and services approximately 70,000 people each day It is Amtrak's second-busiest station with 4.6 million passengers annually and is the southern terminus for the Northeast Corridor and Acela Express routes Maryland's MARC and Virginia's VRE commuter trains and the Metrorail Red Line also provide service into Union Station. Following renovations in 2011 Union Station became Washington's primary intercity bus transit center. Three major airports serve the District Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport is across the Potomac River from downtown Washington in Arlington Virginia and primarily handles domestic flights Major international flights arrive and depart from Washington Dulles International Airport 26.3 miles (42.3 km) west of the District in Fairfax and Loudoun counties in Virginia Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport is 31.7 miles (51.0 km) northeast of the District in Anne Arundel County Maryland. . 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, The Eisenhower Executive Office Building once the world's largest office building houses the Executive Office of the President of the United States! . .
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