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. ; Pepco is the city's electric utility and services 793,000 customers in the District and suburban Maryland an 1889 law prohibits overhead wires within much of the historic City of Washington As a result all power lines and telecommunication cables are located underground in downtown Washington and traffic signals are placed at the edge of the street a plan announced in 2013 would bury an additional 60 miles (97 km) of primary power lines throughout the District. The North Branch between Cumberland Maryland and Ridgeley West Virginia in 2007, Punjab and Haryana: Both states share Chandigarh as their capital city the city itself is administered as a Union territory. Junius Brutus Stearns 1799 11 See also.

On January 29 1850 Senator Henry Clay introduced a plan which combined the major subjects under discussion His legislative package included the admission of California as a free state the cession by Texas of some of its northern and western territorial claims in return for debt relief the establishment of New Mexico and Utah territories a ban on the importation of slaves into the District of Columbia for sale and a more stringent fugitive slave law. Clay had originally favored voting on each of his proposals separately but Senator Henry S Foote of Mississippi convinced him to combine the proposals regarding California's admission and the disposition of Texas's borders into one bill. Clay hoped that this combination of measures would convince congressmen from both North and South to support the overall package of laws even if they objected to specific provisions. Clay's proposal attracted the support of some Northern Democrats and Southern Whigs but it lacked the backing necessary to win passage and debate over the bill continued, In the US as a whole by 1810 the number of free blacks reached 186,446 or 13.5 percent of all blacks. After that period few slaves were freed as the development of cotton plantations featuring short-staple cotton in the Deep South drove up the internal demand for slaves in the domestic slave trade and high prices were paid, The principal organized bodies to advocate abolition and anti-slavery reforms in the north were the Pennsylvania Abolition Society and the New York Manumission Society Before the 1830s the antislavery groups called for gradual emancipation. By the late 1820s under the impulse of religious evangelicals the sense emerged that owning slaves was a sin and the owner had to immediately free himself from this grave sin by emancipation. Independence and Union The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States and consists of two chambers: the House of Representatives and the Senate the Congress meets in the United States Capitol in Washington D.C Both senators and representatives are chosen through direct election though vacancies in the Senate may be filled by a gubernatorial appointment Congress has 535 voting members: 435 representatives and 100 senators the House of Representatives has six non-voting members representing Puerto Rico American Samoa Guam the Northern Mariana Islands the U.S Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia in addition to its 435 voting members Although they cannot vote in the full house these members can address the house sit and vote in congressional committees and introduce legislation. . . Women contributed to the American Revolution in many ways and were involved on both sides Formal politics did not include women but ordinary domestic behaviors became charged with political significance as Patriot women confronted a war which permeated all aspects of political civil and domestic life They participated by boycotting British goods spying on the British following armies as they marched washing cooking and tending for soldiers delivering secret messages and even fighting disguised as men in a few cases such as Deborah Samson Mercy Otis Warren held meetings in her house and cleverly attacked Loyalists with her creative plays and histories. Above all women continued the agricultural work at home to feed their families and the armies They maintained their families during their husbands' absences and sometimes after their deaths.