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. Defending the Revolution Philip Livingston New York 2 Yes Yes. . Free blacks in the North and South fought on both sides of the Revolution but most fought for the Patriots Gary Nash reports that there were about 9,000 black Patriots counting the Continental Army and Navy state militia units privateers wagoneers in the Army servants to officers and spies. Ray Raphael notes that thousands did join the Loyalist cause but "a far larger number free as well as slave tried to further their interests by siding with the patriots." Crispus Attucks was shot dead by British soldiers in the Boston Massacre in 1770 and is considered the first American casualty of the Revolutionary War, Main article: Treaty of Paris (1783), Map of the Potomac River and its environs circa 1862 by Robert Knox Sneden! .

. Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States by Howard Chandler Christy 1940 Washington is the presiding officer standing at right! . Slaves were generally prohibited by law from associating in groups with the exception of worship services (a reason why the Black church is such a notable institution in black communities today) Following Nat Turner's rebellion in 1831 which raised white fears throughout the South some states also prohibited or restricted religious gatherings of slaves or required that they be officiated by white men Planters feared that group meetings would facilitate communication among slaves that could lead to rebellion. Slaves held private secret "brush meetings" in the woods. Hessian troops hired out to the British by their German sovereigns, Implied powers and the commerce clause, The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 created a single new district corporation governing the entire federal territory called the District of Columbia thus dissolving the three major political subdivisions of the District (Port of Georgetown the City of Washington and Washington County) and their governments by this time the county also contained other small settlements and nascent suburbs of Washington outside its bounded limits such as Anacostia which had been incorporated in 1854 as Uniontown; Fort Totten dating at least to the Civil War; and Barry Farm a large tract bought by the Freedmen's Bureau and granted to formerly enslaved and free-born African Americans in 1867.