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These cities satisfy one or both of the following criteria:. The U Street Corridor in Northwest D.C known as "Washington's Black Broadway" is home to institutions like the Howard Theatre Bohemian Caverns and the Lincoln Theatre which hosted music legends such as Washington-native Duke Ellington John Coltrane and Miles Davis. Washington has its own native music genre called go-go; a post-funk percussion-driven flavor of rhythm and blues that was popularized in the late 1970s by D.C band leader Chuck Brown, Procedures of Congress, Salmon Portland Chase (Chief Justice) December 6 1864 December 6 1864; . The congressional inquiry into St Clair's Defeat of 1791 was the first congressional investigation of the executive branch. Investigations are conducted to gather information on the need for future legislation to test the effectiveness of laws already passed and to inquire into the qualifications and performance of members and officials of the other branches Committees may hold hearings and if necessary compel individuals to testify when investigating issues over which it has the power to legislate by issuing subpoenas. Witnesses who refuse to testify may be cited for contempt of Congress and those who testify falsely may be charged with perjury Most committee hearings are open to the public (the House and Senate intelligence committees are the exception); important hearings are widely reported in the mass media and transcripts published a few months afterwards. Congress in the course of studying possible laws and investigating matters generates an incredible amount of information in various forms and can be described as a publisher. Indeed it publishes House and Senate reports and maintains databases which are updated irregularly with publications in a variety of electronic formats, Aircraft carrier at sea. Educational issues Historian Bernard Bailyn argues that the evangelicalism of the era challenged traditional notions of natural hierarchy by preaching that the Bible teaches that all men are equal so that the true value of a man lies in his moral behavior not in his class. Kidd argues that religious disestablishment belief in God as the source of human rights and shared convictions about sin virtue and divine providence worked together to unite rationalists and evangelicals and thus encouraged a large proportion of Americans to fight for independence from the Empire Bailyn on the other hand denies that religion played such a critical role. Alan Heimert argues that New Light anti-authoritarianism was essential to furthering democracy in colonial American society and set the stage for a confrontation with British monarchical and aristocratic rule.

! A large majority of profit-oriented free black slaveholders resided in the Lower South For the most part they were persons of mixed racial origin often women who cohabited or were mistresses of white men or mulatto men . Provided land and slaves by whites they owned farms and plantations worked their hands in the rice cotton and sugar fields and like their white contemporaries were troubled with runaways. Places settled in the South Branch valley bearing variants of "Wappatomaka" include Wappocomo farm built in 1774 and the unincorporated hamlet of Wappocomo (sometimes spelled Wapocomo) at Hanging Rocks both north of Romney on West Virginia Route 28, The Revolution along with the Dutch Revolt (end of the 16th century) and the 17th century English Civil War was among the examples of overthrowing an old regime for many Europeans who later were active during the era of the French Revolution such as the Marquis de Lafayette the American Declaration of Independence influenced the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen of 1789 the spirit of the Declaration of Independence led to laws ending slavery in all the Northern states and the Northwest Territory with New Jersey the last in 1804 States such as New Jersey and New York adopted gradual emancipation which kept some people as slaves for more than two decades longer. 13.3 Media coverage Committee assignments Congress can establish post offices and post roads issue patents and copyrights fix standards of weights and measures establish Courts inferior to the Supreme Court and "make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States or in any Department or Officer thereof" Article Four gives Congress the power to admit new states into the Union.