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The District was governed directly by the U.S Congress from the beginning Alexandria City and County were ceded back from the federal government to the commonwealth of Virginia in 1846 in a process known as retrocession anticipating the 1850 ban on slave trading (but not slavery) in the District. 14 External links Bicentennial logo, 10.2 Citations Second Battle of Tabasco, 6 1850s Washington D.C. Business Directory.

9 Bibliography Numerous universities including George Washington University and Washington University in St Louis were named in honor of Washington, James Madison Virginia 1 Yes vte, 13 Historiography 8.2 Budgetary issues! . . Officer Washington D.C. Business Directory Procedures of Congress The international slave trade was banned in all states except South Carolina by 1800 Finally in 1807 President Jefferson called for and signed into law a Federally-enforced ban on the international slave trade throughout the U.S and its territories it became a federal crime to import or export a slave. However the domestic slave trade was allowed for expansion or for diffusion of slavery into the Louisiana Territory. .