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Congress passed the Residence Act as part of a compromise brokered among James Madison Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton Madison and Jefferson favored a southerly site for the capital on the Potomac River but they lacked a majority to pass the measure through Congress Meanwhile Hamilton was pushing for Congress to pass the Assumption Bill to allow the Federal government to assume debts accumulated by the states during the American Revolutionary War With the compromise Hamilton was able to muster support from the New York State congressional delegation for the Potomac site while four delegates (all from districts bordering the Potomac) switched from opposition to support for the Assumption Bill, Washington D.C. Business Directory; Nearly all of the 55 Constitutional Convention delegates had some experience in colonial and state government and the majority had held county and local offices. Those who lacked national congressional experience were Bassett Blair Brearly Broom Davie Dayton Alexander Martin Luther Martin Mason McClurg Paterson Charles Pinckney Strong and Yates, Also in September 2009 a 121,700 square feet (11,310 m2) central security checkpoint was added on a new security mezzanine level of the main terminal This checkpoint replaced previous checkpoints which were located behind the ticketing areas, however travelers enrolled in TSA PreCheck and CLEAR still use this area to clear security a separate security checkpoint is available on the baggage claim level Both security checkpoints connect to the AeroTrain which links the main terminal with the A B and C concourses. 1870 131,700 75.4% Johnson and Witherspoon were college presidents, 14.1 Reference works See also: District of Columbia home rule; List of mayors of Washington D.C.; and List of District of Columbia symbols; . Shown in the presidential booth of Ford's Theatre from left to right are assassin John Wilkes Booth Abraham Lincoln Mary Todd Lincoln Clara Harris and Henry Rathbone. Southeast Brazil (Portuguese) 21.1% Congress created executive departments in 1789 including the State Department in July the Department of War in August and the Treasury Department in September Washington appointed fellow Virginian Edmund Randolph as Attorney General Samuel Osgood as Postmaster General Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State and Henry Knox as Secretary of War Finally he appointed Alexander Hamilton as Secretary of the Treasury Washington's cabinet became a consulting and advisory body not mandated by the Constitution; . Virginia 292,627 346,671 392,518 425,153 469,757 449,087 472,528 490,865 Washington D.C has been a member state of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) since 2015, Religion and Freemasonry Main article: Prisoners of war in the American Revolutionary War, The British sought out the United States Treasury in hopes of finding money or items of worth but they found only old records. They burned the United States Treasury and other public buildings the United States Department of War building was also burned However the War and State Department files had been removed so the books and records had been saved; the only records of the War Department lost were recommendations of appointments for the Army and letters received from seven years earlier the First U.S Patent Office Building was saved by the efforts of William Thornton the former Architect of the Capitol and then the Superintendent of Patents who gained British cooperation to preserve it.[A] "When the smoke cleared from the dreadful attack the Patent Office was the only Government building . left untouched" in Washington.

President Polk reprised these arguments in his Third Annual Message to Congress on December 7 1847. He scrupulously detailed his administration's position on the origins of the conflict the measures the U.S had taken to avoid hostilities and the justification for declaring war He also elaborated upon the many outstanding financial claims by American citizens against Mexico and argued that in view of the country's insolvency the cession of some large portion of its northern territories was the only indemnity realistically available as compensation This helped to rally congressional Democrats to his side ensuring passage of his war measures and bolstering support for the war in the U.S, A delegation including John Adams and Benjamin Franklin met British admiral Richard Howe on Staten Island in New York Harbor on September 11 in what became known as the Staten Island Peace Conference Howe demanded that the Americans retract the Declaration of Independence which they refused to do and negotiations ended the British then seized New York City and nearly captured Washington's army They made New York their main political and military base of operations holding it until November 1783 the city became the destination for Loyalist refugees and a focal point of Washington's intelligence network. In the early part of the 19th century other organizations were founded to take action on the future of black Americans Some advocated removing free black people from the United States to places where they would enjoy greater freedom; some endorsed colonization in Africa while others advocated emigration During the 1820s and 1830s the American Colonization Society (ACS) was the primary organization to implement the "return" of black Americans to Africa the ACS was made up mostly of Quakers and slaveholders who found uneasy common ground in support of "repatriation" But by this time most black Americans were native-born and did not want to emigrate; rather they wanted full rights in the United States where their people had lived and worked for generations, Slave states (without Texas' claims to New Mexico), D.C Military formations A mobile lounge. . President Taylor opposed the compromise and continued to call for immediate statehood for both California and New Mexico. Senator John C Calhoun and some other Southern leaders argued that the compromise was biased against the South because it would lead to the creation of new free states. Most Northern Whigs led by William Henry Seward who delivered his famous "Higher Law" speech during the controversy opposed the Compromise as well because it would apply the Wilmot Proviso to the western territories and because of the pressing of ordinary citizens into duty on slave-hunting patrols That provision was inserted by Democratic Virginia Senator James M Mason to entice border-state Whigs who faced the greatest danger of losing slaves as fugitives but were lukewarm on general sectional issues related to the South on Texas's land claims! .