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7 Bibliography After the assassination of civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King Jr on April 4 1968 riots broke out in the District primarily in the U Street 14th Street 7th Street and H Street corridors centers of black residential and commercial areas the riots raged for three days until more than 13,600 federal troops stopped the violence Many stores and other buildings were burned; rebuilding was not completed until the late 1990s, University of St Andrews: Witherspoon (honorary doctorate), While each state had its own slave code many concepts were shared throughout the slave states. According to the slave codes some of which were passed in reaction to slave rebellions teaching a slave to read or write was illegal This prohibition was unique to American slavery believed to reduce slaves forming aspirations that could lead to escape or rebellion. Informal education occurred when white children taught slave companions what they were learning; in other cases adult slaves learned from free artisan workers especially if located in cities where there was more freedom of movement. 13 External links Slaveholders began to refer to slavery as the "peculiar institution" to differentiate it from other examples of forced labor They justified it as less cruel than the free labor of the North. Northeastern Mexico Whig Senator Thomas Corwin of Ohio gave a long speech indicting presidential war in 1847. Whig leader Robert Toombs of Georgia declared: "This war is nondescript . We charge the President with usurping the war-making power . with seizing a country . which had been for centuries and was then in the possession of the Mexicans . Let us put a check upon this lust of dominion We had territory enough Heaven knew! .

. Rather than reinforce Taylor's army for a continued advance President Polk sent a second army under General Winfield Scott which was transported to the port of Veracruz by sea to begin an invasion of the Mexican heartland On March 9 1847 Scott performed the first major amphibious landing in U.S history in preparation for the Siege of Veracruz a group of 12,000 volunteer and regular soldiers successfully offloaded supplies weapons and horses near the walled city using specially designed landing crafts Included in the invading force were Robert E Lee George Meade Ulysses S Grant James Longstreet and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, In 1861 General Scott advised Abraham Lincoln to ask Lee to command U.S forces Lee declined and later recounted "I declined the offer he made me to take command of the army that was brought into the field stating candidly and as courteously as I could that though opposed to secession and deprecating war I could take no part in the invasion of the southern states.", Ivory Coast: Yamoussoukro was designated the national capital in 1983 but most government offices and embassies are still located in Abidjan. . 11 Historical reputation and legacy, A 1774 etching from the London Magazine copied by Paul Revere of Boston Prime Minister Lord North author of the Boston Port Act forces the Intolerable Acts down the throat of America whose arms are restrained by Lord Chief Justice Mansfield while Lord Sandwich pins down her feet and peers up her robes Behind them Mother Britannia weeps helplessly while France and Spain look on. ! .