Timothy W Kutas DDS

. . The District has growing industries not directly related to government especially in the areas of education finance public policy and scientific research Georgetown University George Washington University Washington Hospital Center Children's National Medical Center and Howard University are the top five non-government-related employers in the city as of 2009. According to statistics compiled in 2011 four of the largest 500 companies in the country were headquartered in the District in the 2017 Global Financial Centres Index Washington was ranked as having the 12th most competitive financial center in the world and fifth most competitive in the United States (after New York City San Francisco Chicago and Boston). . . In addition many parts of the country were tied to the Southern economy As the historian James Oliver Horton noted prominent slaveholder politicians and the commodity crops of the South had a strong influence on United States politics and economy Horton said. .

All States 694,207 887,612 1,130,781 1,529,012 1,987,428 2,482,798 3,200,600 3,950,546 "The United States Senate A.D 1850" (engraving by Peter F Rothermel):. Eric Foner argues that:, The acquired lands west of the Rio Grande are traditionally called the Mexican Cession in the U.S. as opposed to the Texas Annexation two years earlier though division of New Mexico down the middle at the Rio Grande never had any basis either in control or Mexican boundaries Mexico never recognized the independence of Texas before the war and did not cede its claim to territory north of the Rio Grande or Gila River until this treaty.