W Edward Porter IV Attorney at Law

On August 28 1565 St Augustine Florida was founded by the Spanish conquistador Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles and he brought three African slaves with him During the 16th and 17th centuries St Augustine was the hub of the slave trade in Spanish colonial Florida and the first permanent settlement in the continental United States to include African slaves. . Committees George W Getty the Northwest Ordinance 1787, 1996 85.2% 158,220 9.3% 17,339 4 Hospitals 9 Bibliography Abraham Lincoln (1860) by Mathew Brady taken the day of the Cooper Union speech; 4.2 Annual traffic Shays' Rebellion confirmed for Washington the need to overhaul the Articles of Confederation.

. Washington Gas is the city's natural gas utility and serves over one million customers in the District and its suburbs Incorporated by Congress in 1848 the company installed the city's first gas lights in the Capitol the White House and along Pennsylvania Avenue. . Nashville Convention World Tourism Organization: Madrid The number of enslaved and free blacks rose from 759,000 (60,000 free) in the 1790 US Census to 4,450,000 (11% free or 480,000) a 580% increase in the 1860 US Census the white population from 3.2 million to 27 million an increase of 1180% due to high birth rates and 4.5 million immigrants overwhelmingly from Europe 70% of whom arrived in the years 1840-1860 the percentage of the Black population went from 19.3% to 14.1%. 1790 757,208 19.3% of population of whom 697,681 92% enslaved 1860 4,441,830 14.1% of population of whom 3,953,731 89% enslaved. 10 Other participants, Main article: Geography of Washington D.C, Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry.