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A new and permanent C/D concourse (also called "Tier 2") is planned as part of the D2 Dulles Development Project the new building is to include a three-level structure with 44 airline gates and similar amenities to Concourse B the concourse plan includes a dedicated mezzanine corridor with moving sidewalks to serve international passengers the design and construction of the new C/D concourse has not been scheduled. When built it is planned that both terminals will be connected to the main terminal and other concourses via the AeroTrain to that extent the AeroTrain station at Concourse C was built at the location where the future Concourse C/D structure is proposed to be built and is connected to the existing Concourse C via an underground walkway, 1 Background Abolition of slavery by Congressional action 1862ff, John Banister Virginia 1 Yes Richard Bassett Delaware 1 Yes The Virginia General Assembly voted in February 1846 to accept the return of Alexandria and on July 9 1846 Congress agreed to return all the territory that had been ceded by Virginia Therefore the District's current area consists only of the portion originally donated by Maryland. Confirming the fears of pro-slavery Alexandrians the Compromise of 1850 outlawed the slave trade in the District although not slavery itself. Consequently many black and white religious organizations former Union Army officers and soldiers and wealthy philanthropists were inspired to create and fund educational efforts specifically for the betterment of African Americans; some African Americans had started their own schools before the end of the war Northerners helped create numerous normal schools such as those that became Hampton University and Tuskegee University to generate teachers as well as other colleges for former slaves Blacks held teaching as a high calling with education the first priority for children and adults Many of the most talented went into the field Some of the schools took years to reach a high standard but they managed to get thousands of teachers started as W E B Du Bois noted the black colleges were not perfect but "in a single generation they put thirty thousand black teachers in the South" and "wiped out the illiteracy of the majority of black people in the land".

! Religion Northern abolitionists attacked the war as an attempt by slave-owners to strengthen the grip of slavery and thus ensure their continued influence in the federal government Prominent artists and writers opposed the war the Transcendentalist writers Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson attacked the popular war Thoreau who served jail time for his opposition turned a lecture into an essay now known as Civil Disobedience Emerson was succinct predicting that "The United States will conquer Mexico but it will be as a man who swallowed the arsenic which brings him down in turn Mexico will poison us." Events proved him right as arguments over the expansion of slavery in the lands seized from Mexico would fuel the drift to civil war just a dozen years later!