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Thomas Adams Virginia 1 Yes The Amistad, 4.8 Demobilization and resignation Most incumbents seek re-election and their historical likelihood of winning subsequent elections exceeds 90 percent. . Northern abolitionists attacked the war as an attempt by slave-owners to strengthen the grip of slavery and thus ensure their continued influence in the federal government Prominent artists and writers opposed the war the Transcendentalist writers Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson attacked the popular war Thoreau who served jail time for his opposition turned a lecture into an essay now known as Civil Disobedience Emerson was succinct predicting that "The United States will conquer Mexico but it will be as a man who swallowed the arsenic which brings him down in turn Mexico will poison us." Events proved him right as arguments over the expansion of slavery in the lands seized from Mexico would fuel the drift to civil war just a dozen years later. The Founding Fathers were strong advocates of republican values particularly Samuel Adams Patrick Henry John Adams Benjamin Franklin Thomas Jefferson Thomas Paine George Washington James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, which required men to put civic duty ahead of their personal desires Men had a civic duty to be prepared and willing to fight for the rights and liberties of their countrymen John Adams wrote to Mercy Otis Warren in 1776 agreeing with some classical Greek and Roman thinkers: "Public Virtue cannot exist without private and public Virtue is the only Foundation of Republics." He continued:, District of Columbia Statehood: the District of Columbia would become the 51st State in the Union. Salmon Portland Chase was Lincoln's choice to be Chief Justice of the United States, It may be said as truly that the American Revolution was an aftermath of the Anglo-French conflict in the New World carried on between 1754 and 1763, 3 1790 to 1860 In June 1772 American patriots including John Brown burned a British warship that had been vigorously enforcing unpopular trade regulations in what became known as the Gaspee Affair the affair was investigated for possible treason but no action was taken.

Sunset over the Potomac near Mount Vernon Protestant Dissenters and the Great Awakening The United States delegation at the 1783 Treaty of Paris included John Jay John Adams Benjamin Franklin Henry Laurens and William Temple Franklin Here they are depicted by Benjamin West in his American Commissioners of the Preliminary Peace Agreement with Great Britain the British delegation refused to pose and the painting was never completed. The Native Americans of the region and thus the earliest white settlers referred to the South Branch Potomac River as the Wappatomaka Variants throughout the river's history included Wappatomica River Wapacomo River Wapocomo River Wappacoma River Wappatomaka River South Branch of Potowmac River and South Fork Potomac River, 5.3 American alliances after 1778, Republicanism The District is an important center for indie culture and music in the United States the label Dischord Records formed by Ian MacKaye was one of the most crucial independent labels in the genesis of 1980s punk and eventually indie rock in the 1990s. Modern alternative and indie music venues like the Black Cat and the 9:30 Club bring popular acts to the U Street area. A painting of Lincoln sitting with his hand on his chin and his elbow on his leg. The growing international demand for cotton led many plantation owners further west in search of suitable land in addition the invention of the cotton gin in 1793 enabled profitable processing of short-staple cotton which could readily be grown in the uplands the invention revolutionized the cotton industry by increasing fifty-fold the quantity of cotton that could be processed in a day At the end of the War of 1812 fewer than 300,000 bales of cotton were produced nationally by 1820 the amount of cotton produced had increased to 600,000 bales and by 1850 it had reached 4,000,000 There was an explosive growth of cotton cultivation throughout the Deep South and greatly increased demand for slave labor to support it. As a result manumissions decreased dramatically in the South, President James Madison military officials and his government fled the city in the wake of the British victory at the Battle of Bladensburg They eventually found refuge for the night in Brookeville a small town in Montgomery County Maryland which is known today as the "United States Capital for a Day" President Madison spent the night in the house of Caleb Bentley a Quaker who lived and worked in Brookeville Bentley's house known today as the Madison House still stands in Brookeville.