Article I of the Constitution creates and sets forth the structure and most of the powers of Congress Sections One through Six describe how Congress is elected and gives each House the power to create its own structure Section Seven lays out the process for creating laws and Section Eight enumerates numerous powers Section Nine is a list of powers Congress does not have and Section Ten enumerates powers of the state some of which may only be granted by Congress. Constitutional amendments have granted Congress additional powers Congress also has implied powers derived from the Constitution's Necessary and Proper Clause. In 1779 the Americans forced the hostile Indians out of upstate New York when Washington sent an army under John Sullivan which destroyed 40 empty Iroquois villages in central and western New York the Battle of Newtown proved decisive as the Patriots had an advantage of three-to-one and it ended significant resistance; there was little combat otherwise Sullivan systematically burned the empty villages and destroyed about 160,000 bushels of corn that composed the winter food supply Facing starvation and homeless for the winter the Iroquois fled to Canada the British resettled them in Ontario providing land grants as compensation for some of their losses; ! In 1777 the British sent Burgoyne's invasion force from Canada south to New York to seal off New England Their aim was to isolate New England which the British perceived as the primary source of agitation Rather than move north to support Burgoyne the British army in New York City went to Philadelphia in a major case of mis-coordination capturing it from Washington the invasion army under Burgoyne was much too slow and became trapped in northern New York state it surrendered after the Battles of Saratoga in October 1777 From early October 1777 until November 15 a siege distracted British troops at Fort Mifflin Philadelphia Pennsylvania and allowed Washington time to preserve the Continental Army by safely leading his troops to harsh winter quarters at Valley Forge. American advocates of independence were commonly lampooned in Great Britain for what was termed their hypocritical calls for freedom at the same time that many of their leaders were planters who held hundreds of slaves Samuel Johnson snapped "how is it we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of the Negroes?" Benjamin Franklin countered by criticizing the British self-congratulation about "the freeing of one Negro" named Somersett while they continued to permit the overall slave trade. Phyllis Wheatley was a black poet who popularized the image of Columbia to represent America She came to public attention when her Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral appeared in 1773. . . Main articles: Sugar Act Currency Act Quartering Acts Stamp Act 1765 and Declaratory Act, Those "considered educated and refined were purchased by the wealthiest clients usually plantation owners to become personal sexual companions." "There was a great demand in New Orleans for 'fancy girls'.".
. Article One Section Eight of the Constitution permits the establishment of a "District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may by cession of particular states and the acceptance of Congress become the seat of the government of the United States". However the Constitution does not specify a location for the capital in what is now known as the Compromise of 1790 Madison Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson came to an agreement that the federal government would pay each state's remaining Revolutionary War debts in exchange for establishing the new national capital in the southern United States.[a], 8.1 Upper & Lower Potomac, George Clymer Pennsylvania 2 Yes Yes Countries that have had multiple capital cities in the past.
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