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Shrubs of the Potomac River Basin, 8.2 National debt John Penn North Carolina 2 Yes Yes. One statute of the Compromise of 1850 enacted September 18 1850 is informally known as the Fugitive Slave Law or the Fugitive Slave Act it bolstered the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 the new version of the Fugitive Slave Law required federal judicial officials in all states and federal territories including in those states and territories in which slavery was prohibited to assist with the return of escaped slaves to their masters actively in the states and territories permitting slavery Any federal marshal or other official who did not arrest an alleged runaway slave was liable to a fine of $1000 Law enforcement everywhere in the US had a duty to arrest anyone suspected of being a fugitive slave on no more evidence than a claimant's sworn testimony of ownership Suspected slaves could neither ask for a jury trial nor testify on their own behalf in addition any person aiding a runaway slave by providing food or shelter was to be subject to six months' imprisonment and a $1000 fine Officers capturing a fugitive slave were entitled to a fee for their work, US President John Tyler's administration suggested a tripartite pact that would settle the Oregon boundary dispute and provide for the cession of the port of San Francisco from Mexico Lord Aberdeen declined to participate but said Britain had no objection to U.S territorial acquisition there the British minister in Mexico Richard Pakenham wrote in 1841 to Lord Palmerston urging "to establish an English population in the magnificent Territory of Upper California" saying that "no part of the World offering greater natural advantages for the establishment of an English colony .. by all means desirable . that California once ceasing to belong to Mexico should not fall into the hands of any power but England . daring and adventurous speculators in the United States have already turned their thoughts in this direction." But by the time the letter reached London Sir Robert Peel's Tory government with its Little England policy had come to power and rejected the proposal as expensive and a potential source of conflict, 6 Conduct of the war 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. Construction of the 12-story Cairo Apartment Building (1894) spurred building height restrictions. 1990 86.2% 140,011 11.5% 18,653 10.3 Black Americans. ; !

7.2 The Civil War Slaves shipped to those regions that are part of the present-day United States. . Washington D.C. Business Directory Library of Congress video explanation of committees in the United States Congress. 2 Political representation Good public policy Legislators who "burnish a reputation for policy expertise and leadership", See also: Social Contract and Natural Rights, Cornelius Harnett North Carolina 1 Yes Washington D.C. Business Directory; Two boxes with red dots and blue dots Although Virginia Maryland and Delaware were slave states the latter two already had a high proportion of free blacks by the outbreak of war Following the Revolution the three legislatures made manumission easier allowed by deed or will Quaker and Methodist ministers particularly urged slaveholders to free their slaves the number and proportion of freed slaves in these states rose dramatically until 1810 More than half of the number of free blacks in the United States were concentrated in the Upper South the proportion of free blacks among the black population in the Upper South rose from less than one percent in 1792 to more than 10 percent by 1810 in Delaware nearly 75 percent of blacks were free by 1810. The L'Enfant Plan for Washington D.C. the capital of the United States Meridian Hill Park in Columbia Heights Northwest Washington D.C. Further information: Presidency of James K Polk.