W Edward Porter IV Attorney at Law

The Patowmack Canal was intended by George Washington to connect the Tidewater region near Georgetown with Cumberland Maryland Started in 1785 on the Virginia side of the river it was not completed until 1802 Financial troubles led to the closure of the canal in 1830 the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal operated along the banks of the Potomac in Maryland from 1831 to 1924 and also connected Cumberland to Washington D.C. This allowed freight to be transported around the rapids known as the Great Falls of the Potomac River as well as many other smaller rapids, Fugitive Slave Law 5.4 Children's books 4.2.5 United States Capitol Police! . The newly founded country of the United States had to create a new government to replace the British Parliament the U.S adopted the Articles of Confederation a declaration that established a national government with a one-house legislature Its ratification by all thirteen colonies gave the second Congress a new name: the Congress of the Confederation which met from 1781 to 1789 the Constitutional Convention took place during the summer of 1787 in Philadelphia. Although the Convention was called to revise the Articles of Confederation the intention from the outset for some including James Madison and Alexander Hamilton was to create a new frame of government rather than amending the existing one the delegates elected George Washington to preside over the Convention the result of the Convention was the United States Constitution and the replacement of the Continental Congress with the United States Congress.

Sunset over the Potomac near Mount Vernon Canary Islands (Spain): Until 1927 the capital of the Province of Canarias was Santa Cruz de Tenerife When the Canary Islands became an autonomous community in 1982 Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria were both given capital status. There is currently a balance of institutions between the two capitals; the Canary Islands is the only autonomous community in Spain which has two capitals. . Provisions The philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson shared Grant's view; towards the end of the war he wrote: "The United States will conquer Mexico but it will be as the man swallows the arsenic which brings him down in turn Mexico will poison us.", The Parliament at Westminster saw itself as the supreme lawmaking authority throughout all British possessions and thus entitled to levy any tax without colonial approval. They argued that the colonies were legally British corporations that were completely subordinate to the British parliament and pointed to numerous instances where Parliament had made laws binding on the colonies in the past. They did not see anything in the unwritten British constitution that made taxes special and noted that they had taxed American trade for decades Parliament insisted that the colonies effectively enjoyed a "virtual representation" as most British people did as only a small minority of the British population elected representatives to Parliament. Americans such as James Otis maintained that the Americans were not in fact virtually represented; Barbary pirates from North Africa began to seize North American colonists as early as 1625 and roughly 700 Americans were held captive in this region as slaves between 1785 and 1815. Some captives used their experiences as a North African slave to criticize slavery in the United States such as William Ray in his book Horrors of Slavery. . 2.4 Occupations The power of Southern states in Congress lasted until the Civil War affecting national policies legislation and appointments. One result was that justices appointed to the Supreme Court were also primarily slave owners the planter elite dominated the Southern Congressional delegations and the United States presidency for nearly 50 years.