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A coloured voting box.svg Politics portal See also: List of clergy in the American Revolution Main Terminal Station of Aerotrain. Show map of North America Washington has a growing diversified economy with an increasing percentage of professional and business service jobs the District's gross state product in 2018-Q2 was $141 billion the Washington Metropolitan Area's gross product was $435 billion in 2014 making it the sixth-largest metropolitan economy in the United States. Between 2009 and 2016 GDP per capita in Washington has consistently ranked on the very top among U.S states in 2016 at $160,472 its GDP per capita is almost three times as high as that of Massachusetts which was ranked second in the nation as of June 2011 the Washington Metropolitan Area had an unemployment rate of 6.2%; the second-lowest rate among the 49 largest metro areas in the nation the District of Columbia itself had an unemployment rate of 9.8% during the same time period, 5 Economics There are several countries where for various reasons the official capital and de facto seat of government are separated:! Main articles: American Civil War and Battle of Fort Sumter. . Black slaveholders 15 Notes Originally Washington had planned to retire after his first term while many Americans could not imagine anyone else taking his place. After nearly four years as President and dealing with the infighting in his own cabinet and with partisan critics Washington showed little enthusiasm in running for a second term while Martha also wanted him not to run. James Madison urged him not to retire that his absence would only allow the dangerous political rift in his cabinet and in the House to worsen Jefferson also pleaded with him not to retire and agreed to drop his attacks on Hamilton or he would also retire if Washington did. Hamilton maintained that Washington's absence would be "deplored as the greatest evil" to the country at this time. During this time Washington's close nephew George Augustine Washington his manager at Mount Vernon was critically ill and had to be replaced further increasing Washington's desire to retire and return to Mount Vernon. Early European colonists who settled along the Potomac found a diversity of large and small mammals living in the dense forests nearby Bison elk wolves ( gray and red) and panthers (cougars) were still present at that time but had been hunted to extirpation by the middle of the 19th century Among the denizens of the Potomac's banks beavers and otters met a similar fate while small populations of minks and martens survived into the 20th century in some secluded areas.

The war became a personal issue for the king fueled by his growing belief that British leniency would be taken as weakness by the Americans He also sincerely believed that he was defending Britain's constitution against usurpers rather than opposing patriots fighting for their natural rights. Colonization movement At the beginning of the war some Union commanders thought they were supposed to return escaped slaves to their masters by 1862 when it became clear that this would be a long war the question of what to do about slavery became more general the Southern economy and military effort depended on slave labor it began to seem unreasonable to protect slavery while blockading Southern commerce and destroying Southern production as Congressman George W Julian of Indiana put it in an 1862 speech in Congress the slaves "cannot be neutral as laborers if not as soldiers they will be allies of the rebels or of the Union." Julian and his fellow Radical Republicans put pressure on Lincoln to rapidly emancipate the slaves whereas moderate Republicans came to accept gradual compensated emancipation and colonization. Copperheads the border states and War Democrats opposed emancipation although the border states and War Democrats eventually accepted it as part of total war needed to save the Union, 4.2.5 United States Capitol Police, Broom and Few were small farmers. 6.1 Fish This section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed, 1800 893,602 108,435 1,002,037 11% 5,308,483 19% 8 Government and politics, Reconstruction to present Richard Bassett Delaware 1 Yes 6.2.1 National Bank Washington D.C. Business Directory. . In 2013 an episode of the Weather Channel documentary series When Weather Changed History entitled "The Thunderstorm That Saved D.C." was devoted to these events. . . !