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Washington D.C. Business Directory The deaths of their sons had profound effects on both parents Abraham suffered from "melancholy" a condition later referred to as clinical depression. Later in life Mary struggled with the stresses of losing her husband and sons and Robert committed her temporarily to a mental health asylum in 1875.:341! Abolition of slavery in the various states of the US over time: The ruined and almost uninhabited Athens was made capital of newly independent Greece in 1834 four years after the country gained its independence with the romantic notion of reviving the glory of Ancient Greece. Similarly following the Cold War and German reunification Berlin is now once again the capital of Germany. Other restored capital cities include Moscow after the October Revolution. Confederate troops crossing the fords of the Potomac in early September 1862 for the invasion of Maryland which would culminate in the Battle of Antietam (Print of a wood carving based on a drawing by Thomas Nast; first published in the September 27 1862 edition of Harper's Weekly.), A new ministry under Lord North came to power in 1770 and Parliament withdrew all taxes except the tax on tea giving up its efforts to raise revenue while maintaining the right to tax This temporarily resolved the crisis and the boycott of British goods largely ceased with only the more radical patriots such as Samuel Adams continuing to agitate.

. . Main article: War of 1812 Washington D.C. Business Directory A month before the end of the war Polk was criticized in a United States House of Representatives amendment to a bill praising Major General Zachary Taylor for "a war unnecessarily and unconstitutionally begun by the President of the United States." This criticism in which Congressman Abraham Lincoln played an important role with his Spot Resolutions followed congressional scrutiny of the war's beginnings including factual challenges to claims made by President Polk the vote followed party lines with all Whigs supporting the amendment Lincoln's attack won lukewarm support from fellow Whigs in Illinois but was harshly counter-attacked by Democrats who rallied pro-war sentiments in Illinois; Lincoln's Spot resolutions haunted his future campaigns in the heavily Democratic state of Illinois and were cited by enemies well into his presidency. . .