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Interpretations vary concerning the effect of the Revolution Contemporaries of the period referred to it as "the revolution", although the war is sometimes known as the "American War of Independence" outside the United States particularly in the United Kingdom, Although Virginia Maryland and Delaware were slave states the latter two already had a high proportion of free blacks by the outbreak of war Following the Revolution the three legislatures made manumission easier allowed by deed or will Quaker and Methodist ministers particularly urged slaveholders to free their slaves the number and proportion of freed slaves in these states rose dramatically until 1810 More than half of the number of free blacks in the United States were concentrated in the Upper South the proportion of free blacks among the black population in the Upper South rose from less than one percent in 1792 to more than 10 percent by 1810 in Delaware nearly 75 percent of blacks were free by 1810, Today more than 100 battlefields and historic sites of the American Revolution are protected and maintained by the government the National Park Service alone owns and maintains more than 50 battlefield parks and sites related to the Revolution the American Battlefield Trust preserves almost 700 acres of battlefield land in six states. . Jefferson City Missouri USA (1821) Palmas Tocantins Brazil (1989) Pacific Coast Campaign Economics George Fitzhugh used assumptions about white superiority to justify slavery writing that "the Negro is but a grown up child and must be governed as a child." in the Universal Law of Slavery Fitzhugh argues that slavery provides everything necessary for life and that the slave is unable to survive in a free world because he is lazy and cannot compete with the intelligent European white race He states that "The negro slaves of the South are the happiest and in some sense the freest people in the world." Without the South "He (slave) would become an insufferable burden to society" and "Society has the right to prevent this and can only do so by subjecting him to domestic slavery."! . 14 Bibliography Netherlands: Amsterdam is the constitutional national capital even though the Dutch government the parliament the supreme court the Council of State and the work palace of the King are all located in the Hague as are all the embassies (For more details see: Capital of the Netherlands.), For more than thirty years however the 1776 New Jersey State Constitution gave the vote to "all inhabitants" who had a certain level of wealth including unmarried women and blacks (not married women because they could not own property separately from their husbands) until in 1807 when that state legislature passed a bill interpreting the constitution to mean universal white male suffrage excluding paupers. Washington D.C. Business Directory 1.4 Illinois Gold Coast (Akan Fon) 13.1 In 1794 Washington privately expressed to Tobias Lear his secretary that he found slavery to be repugnant. .

. Hamilton created controversy among Cabinet members by advocating the establishment of the First Bank of the United States Madison and Jefferson objected but the bank easily passed Congress Jefferson and Randolph insisted that the new bank was beyond the authority granted by the constitution as Hamilton believed Washington sided with Hamilton and signed the legislation on February 25 and the rift became openly hostile between Hamilton and Jefferson, Main articles: Theater in Washington D.C and Music of Washington D.C. . ! In July 1845 Polk sent General Zachary Taylor to Texas and by October 3,500 Americans were on the Nueces River ready to take by force the disputed land Polk wanted to protect the border and also coveted for the U.S the continent clear to the Pacific Ocean At the same time Polk wrote to the American consul in the Mexican territory of Alta California disclaiming American ambitions in California but offering to support independence from Mexico or voluntary accession to the United States and warning that the United States would oppose a British or French takeover.