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Economics Washington D.C. Business Directory 5.2 Disputed capitals Washington has two local NPR affiliates WAMU and WETA Members of Congress make fact-finding missions to learn about other countries and stay informed but these outings can cause controversy if the trip is deemed excessive or unconnected with the task of governing for example the Wall Street Journal reported in 2009 that lawmaker trips abroad at taxpayer expense had included spas $300-per-night extra unused rooms and shopping excursions. Lawmakers respond that "traveling with spouses compensates for being away from them a lot in Washington" and justify the trips as a way to meet officials in other nations. ; The harsh conditions on the frontier increased slave resistance and led owners and overseers to rely on violence for control Many of the slaves were new to cotton fields and unaccustomed to the "sunrise-to-sunset gang labor" required by their new life Slaves were driven much harder than when they had been in growing tobacco or wheat back east Slaves had less time and opportunity to improve the quality of their lives by raising their own livestock or tending vegetable gardens for either their own consumption or trade as they could in the east, 9.5 Loyalists Through the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 under the Congress of the Confederation slavery was prohibited in the territories northwest of the Ohio River; existing slaves were not freed for years although they could no longer be sold This was a compromise Thomas Jefferson proposed in 1784 to end slavery in all the territories but his bill lost in the Congress by one vote the territories south of the Ohio River (and Missouri) had authorized slavery. Northerners predominated in the westward movement into the Midwestern territory after the American Revolution; as the states were organized they voted to prohibit slavery in their constitutions when they achieved statehood: Ohio in 1803 Indiana in 1816 and Illinois in 1818 What developed was a Northern block of free states united into one contiguous geographic area that generally shared an anti-slavery culture the exceptions were the areas along the Ohio River settled by Southerners the southern portions of states such as Indiana Ohio and Illinois Residents of those areas generally shared in Southern culture and attitudes in addition these areas were devoted to agriculture longer than the industrializing northern parts of these states and some farmers used slave labor the emancipation of slaves in the North led to the growth in the population of northern free blacks from several hundred in the 1770s to nearly 50,000 by 1810. . See also: Anti-literacy law, 1842 Slave Revolt in the Cherokee Nation, The language of the establishing act of 1801 omitted any provision for district residents to vote for local state-equivalent or federal representatives.

; . . . ! . ! Pay and benefits 12 Notes The resulting constitutions in states such as Maryland Virginia Delaware New York and Massachusetts featured:, Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben's incessant drilling soon transformed Washington's recruits into a disciplined fighting force, and the revitalized army emerged from Valley Forge early the following year. Washington promoted Von Steuben to Major General and made him chief of staff.