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Each territory and Washington D.C elect a non-voting delegate to the U.S House of Representatives as they have throughout Congressional history They "possess the same powers as other members of the House except that they may not vote when the House is meeting as the House of Representatives." They are assigned offices and allowances for staff participate in debate and appoint constituents to the four military service academies for the Army Navy Air Force and Coast Guard. Abolition of slavery by state action during the Civil War Main article: Presidency of Abraham Lincoln James Hopkinson's Plantation Planting sweet potatoes ca 1862/63. Mexico in 1824: Alta California was the northwesternmost federal territory Manifest destiny. Year # Slaves # Free, Seven were major land speculators: Blount Dayton Fitzsimmons Gorham Robert Morris Washington and Wilson, Union nationalism as envisioned by Lincoln "helped lead America to the nationalism of Theodore Roosevelt Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.":222. ; Despite being the nation's capital Washington remained a small city of a few thousand residents virtually deserted during the torrid summertime until the outbreak of the Civil War in February 1861 the Peace Congress a last-ditch attempt by delegates from 21 of the 34 states to avert what many saw as the impending Civil War met in the city's Willard Hotel the strenuous effort failed and the War started in April 1861, King's College (now Columbia): John Jay Alexander Hamilton Gouverneur Morris Robert R Livingston and Egbert Benson, This 1846 lithograph by Nathaniel Currier was entitled the Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor; the phrase "Boston Tea Party" had not yet become standard. .