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Mexico showing no willingness to come to the Nueces to drive the invaders from her soil it became necessary for the "invaders" to approach to within a convenient distance to be struck Accordingly preparations were begun for moving the army to the Rio Grande to a point near Matamoras [sic] it was desirable to occupy a position near the largest centre of population possible to reach without absolutely invading territory to which we set up no claim whatever, Lincoln presided over the expansion of the federal government's economic influence in other areas the National Banking Act created the system of national banks it also established a national currency in 1862 Congress created the Department of Agriculture.:424 in 1862 Lincoln sent a senior general John Pope to put down the "Sioux Uprising" in Minnesota Presented with 303 execution warrants for Santee Dakota who were convicted of killing innocent farmers Lincoln conducted his own personal review of each warrant eventually approving 39 for execution (one was later reprieved).:182. Another popular local daily is the Washington Times the city's second general interest broadsheet and also an influential paper in conservative political circles the alternative weekly Washington City Paper also has a substantial readership in the Washington area, Slaves on a South Carolina plantation (The Old Plantation c 1790) Battle of Churubusco by J Cameron published by Nathaniel Currier Hand tinted lithograph 1847 Digitally restored. . Pew Research Center 2014 Religious Landscape Study on religion in the Washington D.C Implications Lobbyists Washington's army of 11,000 went into winter quarters at Valley Forge north of Philadelphia in December 1777 They suffered between 2,000 and 3,000 deaths in extreme cold over six months mostly from disease and lack of food clothing and shelter. Meanwhile the British were comfortably quartered in Philadelphia paying for supplies in pounds sterling while Washington struggled with a devalued American paper currency the woodlands were soon exhausted of game and by February morale and increased desertions ensued. United States: California campaign, Airline lounges Grant's bloody stalemates damaged Lincoln's re-election prospects and many Republicans feared defeat Lincoln confidentially pledged in writing that if he should lose the election he would still defeat the Confederacy before turning over the White House::80 Lincoln did not show the pledge to his cabinet but asked them to sign the sealed envelope; Further information: Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War and Naval operations in the American Revolutionary War, 1860 presidential election William Paterson New Jersey 1 Yes.