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In January 1791 the President proceeded to appoint in accordance with the Residence Act a three-member commission consisting of Daniel Carroll Thomas Johnson and David Stuart to oversee the surveying of the federal district and appointed Andrew Ellicott as surveyor Washington informed Congress of the site selection on January 24 and suggested that Congress amend the Act to allow the capital to encompass areas to the south of the Eastern Branch including Alexandria Virginia Congress agreed with this suggestion passing an amendment to the Act that Washington approved on March 3 1791 However consistent with language in the original Act the amendment specifically prohibited the "erection of the public buildings otherwise than on the Maryland side of the river Potomac", The District of Columbia Public Charter School Board monitors the 52 public charter schools in the city. Due to the perceived problems with the traditional public school system enrollment in public charter schools has steadily increased as of fall 2010 D.C charter schools had a total enrollment of about 32,000 a 9% increase from the prior year the District is also home to 92 private schools which enrolled approximately 18,000 students in 2008 the District of Columbia Public Library operates 25 neighborhood locations including the landmark Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Library, News media often use the name of a capital city as an alternative name for the country of which it is the capital or of the government that is seated there as a form of metonymy for example "relations between Washington and London" refer to "relations between the United States and the United Kingdom". This house on Duke Street houses the Freedom House Museum with exhibits on the slave trade and the lives of slaves. ! ! Political divisions inside Mexico were another factor in the U.S victory Inside Mexico the centralistas and republicanos vied for power and at times these two factions inside Mexico's military fought each other rather than the invading U.S Army Another faction called the monarchists whose members wanted to install a monarch (some advocated rejoining Spain) further complicated matters This third faction would rise to predominance in the period of the French intervention in Mexico the ease of the U.S landing at Veracruz was in large part due to civil warfare in Mexico City which made any real defense of the port city impossible as Gen Santa Anna said "However shameful it may be to admit this we have brought this disgraceful tragedy upon ourselves through our interminable in-fighting.".

A statue of young Lincoln sitting on a stump holding a book open on his lap, 7.3 Upper Potomac River 3.3.1 "A necessary evil" The percentage of families that owned slaves in 1860 in various groupings of states was as follows:; St Clair resigned his commission and Washington replaced him with Revolutionary War hero General Anthony Wayne From 1792 to 1793 Wayne instructed his troops on Indian warfare tactics and instilled discipline which was lacking under St Clair in August 1794 Washington sent Wayne into tribal territory with authority to drive them out by burning their villages and crops in the Maumee Valley. On August 24 the American army under Wayne's leadership defeated the western confederacy at the Battle of Fallen Timbers and the Treaty of Greenville in August 1795 opened up two-thirds of the Ohio Country for American settlement. Jefferson City Missouri USA (1821), The Capitol reconstruction took much longer than anticipated the Old Brick Capitol took only five months to complete; the Capitol took twelve years a committee appointed by Congress to investigate the damage to the District concluded that it was cheaper to rebuild the already existing and damaged buildings than to build an entirely new one. On February 13 1815 President Madison and Congress passed legislation to borrow $500,000 to repair the public buildings including the Capitol "on their present sites in the city of Washington". Benjamin Latrobe architect of the Capitol who took over for William Thornton in 1803 was rehired to repair the building on April 18 1815. He immediately requested 60,000 feet of boards 500 tons of stone 1,000 barrels of lime and brick. With the $500,000 borrowed from Washington banks, Latrobe was able to rebuild the two wings and the central dome before being fired in 1818 for being difficult. Charles Bulfinch took over and officially completed the renovations by 1826. Bulfinch modified Latrobe's design by increasing the height of the Capitol dome to match the diameter of 86 ft With the reconstruction of the public buildings in Washington the value of land in the area increased dramatically paving the way for the expansion of the city that developed in the years leading up to the American Civil War, Government and politics Corwin Amendment The Founding Fathers represented a cross-section of 18th-century U.S leadership According to a study of the biographies by Caroline Robbins:. George Washington appears on contemporary U.S currency including the one-dollar bill and the quarter-dollar coin (the Washington quarter) Washington and Benjamin Franklin appeared on the nation's first postage stamps in 1847 Since that time Washington has appeared on many postage issues more than any other person. On the following day William T Sherman led the 65,000 men of the Army of the Tennessee and the Army of Georgia along Washington's streets past the cheering crowds Within a week after the celebrations the two armies were disbanded and many of the volunteer regiments and batteries were sent home to be mustered out of the army, Ostend Manifesto Washington is shown presiding as Master Mason over a lodge meeting, In 1839 Washington biographer Jared Sparks maintained that Washington's "...Farewell Address was printed and published with the laws by order of the legislatures as an evidence of the value they attached to its political precepts and of their affection for its author." in 1972 Washington scholar James Flexner referred to the Farewell Address as receiving as much acclaim as Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence and Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in 2010 historian Ron Chernow reported the Farewell Address proved to be one of the most influential statements on Republicanism. The principal organized bodies to advocate abolition and anti-slavery reforms in the north were the Pennsylvania Abolition Society and the New York Manumission Society Before the 1830s the antislavery groups called for gradual emancipation. By the late 1820s under the impulse of religious evangelicals the sense emerged that owning slaves was a sin and the owner had to immediately free himself from this grave sin by emancipation; .