Main article: Powers of the United States Congress, Slavery Read's entry into the political arena was as a commissioner of the town of Charlestown Maryland. See also: History of unfree labor in the United States, the American Civil War, 2 Origins of the war Congress passed the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801 that officially organized the District and placed the entire territory under the exclusive control of the federal government Further the unincorporated area within the District was organized into two counties: the County of Washington to the east of the Potomac and the County of Alexandria to the west. After the passage of this Act citizens living in the District were no longer considered residents of Maryland or Virginia which therefore ended their representation in Congress. . Lincoln issued his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22 1862 and said that a final proclamation would be issued if his gradual plan based on compensated emancipation and voluntary colonization was rejected Only the District of Columbia accepted Lincoln's gradual plan and Lincoln issued his final Emancipation Proclamation on January 1 1863 in his letter to Hodges Lincoln explained his belief that.
. Eastern North America in 1775 the British Province of Quebec the Thirteen Colonies on the Atlantic coast and the Indian Reserve as defined by the Royal Proclamation of 1763 the border between the red and pink areas represents the 1763 "Proclamation line" while the orange area represents the Spanish claim, Washington D.C. Business Directory, Further information: Ancestry of George Washington and British America.
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