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9.1 Native Americans as slaves A total of about 7000 to 8000 Patriots served on "Committees of Correspondence" at the colonial and local levels comprising most of the leadership in their communities Loyalists were excluded the committees became the leaders of the American resistance to British actions and largely determined the war effort at the state and local level When the First Continental Congress decided to boycott British products the colonial and local Committees took charge examining merchant records and publishing the names of merchants who attempted to defy the boycott by importing British goods. With guerrillas harassing his line of communications back to Veracruz Scott decided not to weaken his army to defend Puebla but leaving only a garrison at Puebla to protect the sick and injured recovering there advanced on Mexico City on August 7 with his remaining force the capital was laid open in a series of battles around the right flank of the city defenses the Battle of Contreras and Battle of Churubusco After Churubusco fighting halted for an armistice and peace negotiations which broke down on September 6 1847 With the subsequent battles of Molino del Rey and of Chapultepec and the storming of the city gates the capital was occupied Scott became military governor of occupied Mexico City His victories in this campaign made him an American national hero, Slave states (without Texas' claims to New Mexico). Map of the U.S showing Lincoln winning the North-east and West Breckinridge winning the South Douglas winning Missouri and Bell winning Virginia West Virginia and Kentucky.

. ; Washington D.C during the early stages of the War 1990 86.2% 140,011 11.5% 18,653. With the exception of cases of peonage beyond the period of Reconstruction the federal government took almost no action to enforce the 13th Amendment until December 1941 when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt summoned his attorney general Five days after Pearl Harbor at the request of the president Attorney General Francis Biddle issued Circular No 3591 to all federal prosecutors instructing them to actively investigate and try any case of involuntary servitude or slavery Several months later convict leasing was officially abolished But aspects have persisted in other forms while historians argue that other systems of penal labor were all created in 1865 and convict leasing was simply the most oppressive form.