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. . The Congress was created by the Constitution of the United States and first met in 1789 replacing in its legislative function the Congress of the Confederation Although not legally mandated in practice since the 19th century Congress members are typically affiliated with the Republican Party or with the Democratic Party and only rarely with a third party or independents! . . Territory incorporated into the US after the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. ! Main article: 1864 United States presidential election, In February 1801 Congress approved the District of Columbia Organic Act which officially organized the District of Columbia Congress at that time became the district's exclusive governing authority.[citation needed].

! . Union Station is the city's main train station and services approximately 70,000 people each day It is Amtrak's second-busiest station with 4.6 million passengers annually and is the southern terminus for the Northeast Corridor and Acela Express routes Maryland's MARC and Virginia's VRE commuter trains and the Metrorail Red Line also provide service into Union Station. Following renovations in 2011 Union Station became Washington's primary intercity bus transit center. Three major airports serve the District Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport is across the Potomac River from downtown Washington in Arlington Virginia and primarily handles domestic flights Major international flights arrive and depart from Washington Dulles International Airport 26.3 miles (42.3 km) west of the District in Fairfax and Loudoun counties in Virginia Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport is 31.7 miles (51.0 km) northeast of the District in Anne Arundel County Maryland, The first 19 or so Africans to reach the English colonies arrived in Jamestown Virginia in 1619 brought by English privateers who had seized them from a captured Portuguese slave ship. Slaves were usually baptized in Africa before embarking as English custom then considered baptized Christians exempt from slavery colonists treated these Africans as indentured servants and they joined about 1,000 English indentured servants already in the colony the Africans were freed after a prescribed period and given the use of land and supplies by their former masters the historian Ira Berlin noted that what he called the "charter generation" in the colonies was sometimes made up of mixed-race men (Atlantic Creoles) who were indentured servants and whose ancestry was African and Iberian They were descendants of African women and Portuguese or Spanish men who worked in African ports as traders or facilitators in the slave trade for example Anthony Johnson arrived in Virginia in 1621 from Angola as an indentured servant; he became free and a property owner eventually buying and owning slaves himself the transformation of the social status of Africans from indentured servitude to slaves in a racial caste which they could not leave or escape happened gradually, New Orleans became nationally important as a slave market and port as slaves were shipped from there upriver by steamboat to plantations on the Mississippi River; it also sold slaves who had been shipped downriver from markets such as Louisville by 1840 it had the largest slave market in North America it became the wealthiest and the fourth-largest city in the nation based chiefly on the slave trade and associated businesses the trading season was from September to May after the harvest; 3.3.2 "A positive good" Before returning to private life in June 1783 Washington called for a strong union Though he was concerned that he might be criticized for meddling in civil matters he sent a circular letter to all the states maintaining that the Articles of Confederation was no more than "a rope of sand" linking the states He believed that the nation was on the verge of "anarchy and confusion" was vulnerable to foreign intervention and that a national constitution would unify the states under a strong central government. When Shays' Rebellion erupted in Massachusetts on August 29 1786 over taxation Washington was further convinced that a national constitution was needed. Some nationalists feared that the new republic had descended into lawlessness and they met together on September 11 1786 at Annapolis to ask Congress to revise the Articles of Confederation One of their biggest efforts however was getting Washington to attend. Congress agreed to a Constitutional Convention to be held in Philadelphia in Spring 1787 and each state was to send delegates, Traders responded to the demand including John Armfield and his uncle Isaac Franklin who were "reputed to have made over half a million dollars (in 19th-century value)" in the slave trade. (They did not handle the Jesuit transaction just mentioned.) Setting up an office in what was then the District of Columbia regional center of the slave trade in Alexandria "a major slave trading port for more than a century" the two men went into business in 1828 buying slaves in the North and selling them in the South:. The civilian population of northern Mexico offered little resistance to the American invasion possibly because the country had already been devastated by Comanche and Apache Indian raids Josiah Gregg who was with the American army in northern Mexico said that "the whole country from New Mexico to the borders of Durango is almost entirely depopulated the haciendas and ranchos have been mostly abandoned and the people chiefly confined to the towns and cities.". This rebellion prompted Virginia and other slave states to pass more restrictions on slaves and free people of color controlling their movement and requiring more white supervision of gatherings in 1835 North Carolina withdrew the franchise for free people of color and they lost their vote. Ad for the Federalist, The Potomac River System 4 Structure 6 Culture Joint resolutions There is little difference between a bill and a joint resolution since both are treated similarly; a joint resolution originating from the House for example begins "H.J.Res." followed by its number.