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2.2.4 Self-taught or little formal education. . In 1654 John Casor a black indentured servant in colonial Virginia was the first man to be declared a slave in a civil case He had claimed to an officer that his master Anthony Johnson himself a free black had held him past his indenture term a neighbor Robert Parker told Johnson that if he did not release Casor he would testify in court to this fact Under local laws Johnson was at risk for losing some of his headright lands for violating the terms of indenture Under duress Johnson freed Casor Casor entered into a seven years' indenture with Parker Feeling cheated Johnson sued Parker to repossess Casor a Northampton County Virginia court ruled for Johnson declaring that Parker illegally was detaining Casor from his rightful master who legally held him "for the duration of his life", President John Witherspoon of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) wrote widely circulated sermons linking the American Revolution to the teachings of the Bible Throughout the colonies dissenting Protestant ministers (Congregational Baptist and Presbyterian) preached Revolutionary themes in their sermons while most Church of England clergymen preached loyalty to the king the titular head of the English state church. Religious motivation for fighting tyranny transcended socioeconomic lines to encompass rich and poor men and women frontiersmen and townsmen farmers and merchants the Declaration of Independence also referred to the "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God" as justification for the Americans' separation from the British monarchy Most eighteenth-century Americans believed that the entire universe ("nature") was God's creation and he was "Nature's God" Everything was part of the "universal order of things" which began with God and was directed by his providence. Accordingly the signers of the Declaration professed their "firm reliance on the Protection of divine Providence" and they appealed to "the Supreme Judge for the rectitude of our intentions". George Washington was firmly convinced that he was an instrument of providence to the benefit of the American people and of all humanity, California was part of the Mexican Cession After the Mexican War California was essentially run by military governors President James K Polk tried to get Congress to establish a territorial government in California officially but the increasingly-sectional debates prevented that the South wanted to extend slave territory to Southern California and to the Pacific Coast but the North did not. . Prairie lawyer In 1735 the Georgia Trustees enacted a law prohibiting slavery in the new colony which had been established in 1733 to enable the "worthy poor" as well as persecuted European Protestants to have a new start Slavery was then legal in the other twelve English colonies Neighboring South Carolina had an economy based on the use of enslaved labor the Georgia Trustees wanted to eliminate the risk of slave rebellions and make Georgia better able to defend against attacks from the Spanish to the south who offered freedom to escaped slaves James Edward Oglethorpe was the driving force behind the colony and the only trustee to reside in Georgia He opposed slavery on moral grounds as well as for pragmatic reasons and vigorously defended the ban on slavery against fierce opposition from Carolina slave merchants and land speculators, Main article: Native Americans in the United States, Further information: Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War and Naval operations in the American Revolutionary War. Join or Die by Benjamin Franklin was recycled to encourage the former colonies to unite against British rule, Washington D.C. Business Directory Disputed territory 11 See also Seven (Fitzsimons Gorham Luther Martin Mifflin Robert Morris Pierce and Wilson) suffered serious financial reversals that left them in or near bankruptcy Robert Morris spent three of the last years of his life imprisoned following bad land deals. Two Blount and Dayton were involved in possibly treasonous activities Yet as they had done before the convention most of the group continued to render public service particularly to the new government they had helped to create. .

The Potomac River (/p?'to?m?k/ (About this soundlisten)) is found within the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States and flows from the Potomac Highlands into the Chesapeake Bay the river (main stem and North Branch) is approximately 405 miles (652 km) long, with a drainage area of about 14,700 square miles (38,000 km2) in terms of area this makes the Potomac River the fourth largest river along the Atlantic coast of the United States and the 21st largest in the United States Over 5 million people live within the Potomac watershed. For more than thirty years however the 1776 New Jersey State Constitution gave the vote to "all inhabitants" who had a certain level of wealth including unmarried women and blacks (not married women because they could not own property separately from their husbands) until in 1807 when that state legislature passed a bill interpreting the constitution to mean universal white male suffrage excluding paupers. President Ulysses S Grant who as a young army lieutenant had served in Mexico under General Taylor recalled in his Memoirs published in 1885 that:. . . .