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Washington D.C. Business Directory A Bureau of Engraving and Printing portrait of Hamilton as Secretary of the Treasury. . The most famous and most visited memorials are Lincoln's sculpture on Mount Rushmore; Lincoln Memorial Ford's Theatre and Petersen House (where he died) in Washington D.C.; and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield Illinois not far from Lincoln's home as well as his tomb.

; Parliament sought to punish Massachusetts colonists for their role in the Boston Tea Party in 1774 by passing the Coersive Acts which Washington referred to as "an Invasion of our Rights and Privileges". He said Americans must not submit to acts of tyranny since "custom and use shall make us as tame and abject slaves as the blacks we rule over with such arbitrary sway". That July he and George Mason drafted a list of resolutions for the Fairfax County committee which Washington chaired and the committee adopted the Fairfax Resolves calling for a Continental Congress. On August 1 Washington attended the First Virginia Convention where he was selected as a delegate to the First Continental Congress as tensions rose in 1774 he assisted in the training of county militias in Virginia and organized enforcement of the Continental Association boycott of British goods instituted by the Congress.