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The Patowmack Canal was intended by George Washington to connect the Tidewater region near Georgetown with Cumberland Maryland Started in 1785 on the Virginia side of the river it was not completed until 1802 Financial troubles led to the closure of the canal in 1830 the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal operated along the banks of the Potomac in Maryland from 1831 to 1924 and also connected Cumberland to Washington D.C. This allowed freight to be transported around the rapids known as the Great Falls of the Potomac River as well as many other smaller rapids, 4.3 Post-revolution Southern manumissions 10 Citations Despite the ban slave imports continued through smugglers bringing in slaves past the U.S Navy's African Slave Trade Patrol to South Carolina and overland from Texas and Florida both under Spanish control. Congress increased the punishment associated with importing slaves classifying it in 1820 as an act of piracy with smugglers subject to harsh penalties including death if caught After that "it is unlikely that more than 10,000 [slaves] were successfully landed in the United States." But some smuggling of slaves into the United States continued until just before the start of the Civil War; see Wanderer (slave ship) and Clotilde (slave ship). . As a protection for slavery the delegates approved Section 2 of Article IV which prohibited states from freeing slaves who fled to them from another state and required the return of chattel property to owners; 1.5 Civil rights and home rule era, The city's local government particularly during the mayoralty of Marion Barry was criticized for mismanagement and waste. During his administration in 1989 the Washington Monthly magazine claimed that the District had "the worst city government in America." in 1995 at the start of Barry's fourth term Congress created the District of Columbia Financial Control Board to oversee all municipal spending. Mayor Anthony Williams won election in 1998 and oversaw a period of urban renewal and budget surpluses!

. . . The Potomac River brings together a variety of cultures throughout the watershed from the coal miners of upstream West Virginia to the urban residents of the nation's capital and along the lower Potomac the watermen of Virginia's Northern Neck. Washington arrived in Philadelphia on May 9 1787 though a quorum was not attained until Friday May 25 Benjamin Franklin nominated Washington to preside over the convention and he was unanimously elected to serve as president general the convention's state-mandated purpose was to revise the Articles of Confederation with "all such alterations and further provisions" required to improve them and the new government would be established when the resulting document was "duly confirmed by the several states". Governor Edmund Randolph of Virginia introduced Madison's Virginia Plan on May 27 the third day of the convention it called for an entirely new constitution and a sovereign national government which Washington highly recommended, Benjamin Franklin Pennsylvania 2 Yes Yes Both parties deprecated war but one of them would make war rather than let the Nation survive and the other would accept war rather than let it perish and the war came, Benjamin Rush Pennsylvania 1 Yes The revolution could divide families such as William Franklin son of Benjamin Franklin and royal governor of the Province of New Jersey who remained loyal to the Crown throughout the war He and his father never spoke again. Recent immigrants who had not been fully Americanized were also inclined to support the King such as Flora MacDonald who was a Scottish settler in the back country! Post-revolution Southern manumissions, See also: Second Battle of Tabasco, The Capture of the Hessians at Trenton December 26 1776.