Gabriel Tremblay Health Economist

Washington D.C is a prominent center for national and international media the Washington Post founded in 1877 is the oldest and most-read local daily newspaper in Washington. "The Post" as it is popularly called is well known as the newspaper that exposed the Watergate scandal it had the sixth-highest readership of all news dailies in the country in 2011 the Washington Post Company also publishes a daily free commuter newspaper called the Express which summarizes events sports and entertainment as well as the Spanish-language paper El Tiempo Latino, imported into British North America Born in Kentucky Lincoln grew up on the frontier in a poor family Self-educated he became a lawyer Whig Party leader Illinois state legislator and Congressman in 1849 he left government to resume his law practice but angered by the success of Democrats in opening the prairie lands to slavery reentered politics in 1854 He became a leader in the new Republican Party and gained national attention in 1858 for debating national Democratic leader Stephen A Douglas in the 1858 Illinois Senate campaign He then ran for President in 1860 sweeping the North and winning Southern pro-slavery elements took his win as proof that the North was rejecting the constitutional rights of Southern states to practice slavery They began the process of seceding from the union to secure its independence the new Confederate States of America fired on Fort Sumter one of the few U.S forts in the South Lincoln called up volunteers and militia to suppress the rebellion and restore the Union. In much of the United States victory and the acquisition of new land brought a surge of patriotism Victory seemed to fulfill Democrats' belief in their country's Manifest Destiny While Whig Ralph Waldo Emerson rejected war "as a means of achieving America's destiny," he accepted that "most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means." Although the Whigs had opposed the war they made Zachary Taylor their presidential candidate in the election of 1848 praising his military performance while muting their criticism of the war. West Point espionage 9 Notes Junius Brutus Stearns 1851. A few nation states have multiple capitals and there are also several states that have no capital Some have a city as the capital but with most government agencies elsewhere, Background Washington D.C. Business Directory, The number of enslaved and free blacks rose from 759,000 (60,000 free) in the 1790 US Census to 4,450,000 (11% free or 480,000) a 580% increase in the 1860 US Census the white population from 3.2 million to 27 million an increase of 1180% due to high birth rates and 4.5 million immigrants overwhelmingly from Europe 70% of whom arrived in the years 1840-1860 the percentage of the Black population went from 19.3% to 14.1%. 1790 757,208 19.3% of population of whom 697,681 92% enslaved 1860 4,441,830 14.1% of population of whom 3,953,731 89% enslaved! . Reelection These are lawmakers who "never met a voter they didn't like" and provide excellent constituent services George Washington. Turtles of the Potomac River Basin; A group of men sitting at a table as another man creates money on a wooden machine, US soldiers' memoirs describe cases of looting and murder of Mexican civilians mostly by State Volunteers One officer's diary records:, Impact of the war in the United States.

. Abolition of slavery by Congressional action 1862ff Presidential election results; John Trumbull 1824 In Massachusetts slavery was successfully challenged in court in 1783 in a freedom suit by Quock Walker; he said that slavery was in contradiction to the state's new constitution of 1780 providing for equality of men Freed slaves were subject to racial segregation and discrimination in the North and it took decades for some states to extend the franchise to them. In 2012 Washington's annual murder count had dropped to 88 the lowest total since 1961 the murder rate has since risen from that historic low though it remains close to half the rate of the early 2000s. Washington was once described as the "murder capital" of the United States during the early 1990s the number of murders peaked in 1991 at 479 but the level of violence then began to decline significantly, First Lady Pat Nixon ushered in the era of jumbo jets by christening the first Boeing 747 at Dulles January 15 1970, Morris signed two of the documents one as a delegate from New York and one as a delegate from Pennsylvania.