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. One way to categorize lawmakers according to political scientist Richard Fenno is by their general motivation: 7.2 Civil War 10 External links 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. . Grant waged his bloody Overland Campaign in 1864 with heavy losses on both sides.:113 Despite this when Lincoln asked what Grant's plans were the general replied "I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.":501.

Nashville Convention The capital city is usually but not always a primary target in a war as capturing it usually guarantees capture of much of the enemy government victory for the attacking forces or at the very least demoralization for the defeated forces, War of 1812, This struggle took place amid strong support for slavery among white Southerners who profited greatly from the system of enslaved labor But slavery was entwined with the national economy; for instance the banking shipping and manufacturing industries of New York City all had strong economic interests in slavery as did similar industries in other major port cities in the North the northern textile mills in New York and New England processed Southern cotton and manufactured clothes to outfit slaves by 1822 half of New York City's exports were related to cotton! 5.3 U.S journalism during the war, Washington the farmer is shown standing on his plantation talking to an overseer as children play and slaves work Work is by Junius Stearns, The historians John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger wrote:.