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Union defenses along the Potomac near Washington DC, By the early 1900s L'Enfant's vision of a grand national capital had become marred by slums and randomly placed buildings including a railroad station on the National Mall Congress formed a special committee charged with beautifying Washington's ceremonial core. What became known as the McMillan Plan was finalized in 1901 and included re-landscaping the Capitol grounds and the National Mall clearing slums and establishing a new citywide park system the plan is thought to have largely preserved L'Enfant's intended design; . . In Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville noted that "the colonies in which there were no slaves became more populous and more rich than those in which slavery flourished." Economists Peter H Lindert and Jeffrey G Williamson in a pair of articles published in 2012 and 2013 found that despite the American South initially having per capita income roughly double that of the North in 1774 incomes in the South had declined 27% by 1800 and continued to decline over the next four decades while the economies in New England and the Mid-Atlantic states vastly expanded by 1840 per capita income in the South was well behind the Northeast and the national average (Note: This is also true of contemporary incomes in the United States in the early 21st century.); . The Library of Congress is one of the world's largest libraries with more than 167 million cataloged items, The Founding Fathers represented a cross-section of 18th-century U.S leadership According to a study of the biographies by Caroline Robbins:, Before returning to private life in June 1783 Washington called for a strong union Though he was concerned that he might be criticized for meddling in civil matters he sent a circular letter to all the states maintaining that the Articles of Confederation was no more than "a rope of sand" linking the states He believed that the nation was on the verge of "anarchy and confusion" was vulnerable to foreign intervention and that a national constitution would unify the states under a strong central government. When Shays' Rebellion erupted in Massachusetts on August 29 1786 over taxation Washington was further convinced that a national constitution was needed. Some nationalists feared that the new republic had descended into lawlessness and they met together on September 11 1786 at Annapolis to ask Congress to revise the Articles of Confederation One of their biggest efforts however was getting Washington to attend. Congress agreed to a Constitutional Convention to be held in Philadelphia in Spring 1787 and each state was to send delegates. A seated Lincoln holding a book as his young son looks at it.

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