. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney South Carolina 1 Yes, With the development of slave and free states after the American Revolution and far-flung commercial and military activities new situations arose in which slaves might be taken by masters into free states Most free states not only prohibited slavery but ruled that slaves brought and kept there illegally could be freed Such cases were sometimes known as transit cases. Jefferson City Missouri USA (1821), Further information: Early life and career of Abraham Lincoln and Abraham Lincoln in the Black Hawk War, Beginning in the 19th century with increasing mining and agriculture upstream and urban sewage and runoff downstream the water quality of the Potomac River deteriorated This created conditions of severe eutrophication It is said that President Abraham Lincoln used to escape to the highlands on summer nights to escape the river's stench in the 1960s with dense green algal blooms covering the river's surface President Lyndon Johnson declared the river "a national disgrace" and set in motion a long-term effort to reduce pollution from sewage and restore the beauty and ecology of this historic river One of significant pollution control projects at the time was the expansion of the Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant which serves Washington and several surrounding communities. Enactment of the 1972 Clean Water Act led to construction or expansion of additional sewage treatment plants in the Potomac watershed Controls on phosphorus one of the principal contributors to eutrophication were implemented in the 1980s through sewage plant upgrades and restrictions on phosphorus in detergents. . .
. Bight of Biafra (Igbo Tikar Ibibio Bamileke Bubi) 24.4 Joseph Reed Pennsylvania 1 Yes Belmopan Belize (1970) This omission was not related to any constitutional restriction or apparently any rationale at all Legal scholars in 2004 called the omission of voting rights a simple "historical accident" pointing out that the preceding Residence Act of July 16 1790 exercising the same constitutional authority over the same territory around the Potomac had protected the votes of the district's citizens in federal and state elections Those citizens had indeed continued to cast ballots from 1790 through 1800 for their U.S House representatives and for their Maryland and Virginia state legislators. James Madison had written in the Federalist No 43 that the citizens of the federal district should "of course" have their will represented "derived from their own suffrages." the necessary language simply did not appear in the 1801 legislation. 4.4 Domestic slave trade and forced migration 6.2 Museums Concourses C and D. 5.2 Disputed capitals Francis Hopkinson New Jersey 1 Yes, By law Washington's skyline is low and sprawling the federal Height of Buildings Act of 1910 allows buildings that are no taller than the width of the adjacent street plus 20 feet (6.1 m). Despite popular belief no law has ever limited buildings to the height of the United States Capitol Building or the 555-foot (169 m) Washington Monument, which remains the District's tallest structure City leaders have criticized the height restriction as a primary reason why the District has limited affordable housing and traffic problems caused by urban sprawl, Further information: History of Washington D.C and Timeline of Washington D.C. Liberalism Agitation against slavery Robert Morris had been a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly and president of Pennsylvania's Committee of Safety (American Revolution) He was also a member of the Committee of Secret Correspondence, in the 72 years between the election of George Washington and the election of Abraham Lincoln 50 of those years [had] a slaveholder as president of the United States and for that whole period of time there was never a person elected to a second term who was not a slaveholder.
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