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. Join or Die by Benjamin Franklin was recycled to encourage the former colonies to unite against British rule!

Congress passed the Organic Act of 1871 which repealed the individual charters of the cities of Washington and Georgetown and created a new territorial government for the whole District of Columbia. President Grant appointed Alexander Robey Shepherd to the position of governor in 1873 Shepherd authorized large-scale projects that greatly modernized the City of Washington but ultimately bankrupted the District government in 1874 Congress replaced the territorial government with an appointed three-member Board of Commissioners. The enormous complex of defenses that protected Washington D.C. in 1865 Thomas Heyward Jr. South Carolina 2 Yes Yes. Main article: Women in the American Revolution 1998 66.2% 92,504 30.2% 42,280 Washington D.C state symbols Columbia General Hospital Prior to the American Revolution masters and revivalists spread Christianity to slave communities supported by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in the First Great Awakening of the mid-18th century Baptists and Methodists from New England preached a message against slavery encouraged masters to free their slaves converted both slaves and free blacks and gave them active roles in new congregations the first independent black congregations were started in the South before the Revolution in South Carolina and Georgia. . . Political views Beginning during the revolution and in the first two decades of the postwar era every state in the North abolished slavery ending with New Jersey in 1804 although in some cases existing slaves were not liberated immediately These were the first abolitionist laws in the Atlantic World, Thomas Nelson Jr. Virginia 1 Yes 7 Aftermath Few or no restraints on individuals holding multiple positions in government!