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6.8.2 Advance on Puebla The L'Enfant Plan for Washington D.C. as revised by Andrew Ellicott in 1792; . The British strategy in America now concentrated on a campaign in the southern states With fewer regular troops at their disposal the British commanders saw the "southern strategy" as a more viable plan as they perceived the south as strongly Loyalist with a large population of recent immigrants and large numbers of slaves who might be captured or run away to join the British! .

. 1 Overview Because of the three-fifths compromise in the U.S Constitution in which slaves counted in the calculation of how many representatives a state had in Congress (though only three-fifths as much as a free person) the planter class had long held power in Congress out of proportion to the total number of free people in the US population as a whole, Free states in early 1850 The city was defended by Mexican General Juan Morales with 3,400 men Mortars and naval guns under Commodore Matthew C Perry were used to reduce the city walls and harass defenders After a bombardment on March 24 1847 the walls of Veracruz had a thirty-foot gap the city replied the best it could with its own artillery the effect of the extended barrage destroyed the will of the Mexican side to fight against a numerically superior force and they surrendered the city after 12 days under siege U.S troops suffered 80 casualties while the Mexican side had around 180 killed and wounded while hundreds of civilians were killed. During the siege the U.S side began to fall victim to yellow fever. District of Columbia Others argue that the Compromise only made more obvious the pre-existing sectional divisions and laid the groundwork for future conflict They view the Fugitive Slave Law as helping to polarize the US as shown in the enormous reaction to Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law aroused feelings of bitterness in the North Furthermore the Compromise of 1850 led to a breakdown in the spirit of compromise in the United States in the antebellum period directly before the Civil War the Compromise exemplifies that spirit but the deaths of influential senators who worked on the compromise primarily Henry Clay and Daniel Webster contributed to the feeling of increasing disparity between the North and South. Washington proclaimed November 26 as a day of Thanksgiving in order to encourage national unity "It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God to obey His will to be grateful for His benefits and humbly to implore His protection and favor." He spent that day fasting and visiting debtors in prison to provide them with food and beer, Congress is constantly changing and is constantly in flux in recent times the American south and west have gained House seats according to demographic changes recorded by the census and includes more minorities and women although both groups are still underrepresented. While power balances among the different parts of government continue to change the internal structure of Congress is important to understand along with its interactions with so-called intermediary institutions such as political parties civic associations interest groups and the mass media. Interpretations vary concerning the effect of the Revolution Contemporaries of the period referred to it as "the revolution", although the war is sometimes known as the "American War of Independence" outside the United States particularly in the United Kingdom, Silas Deane Connecticut 1 Yes Washington D.C. Business Directory On April 22 1793 during the French Revolution Washington issued his famous Neutrality Proclamation and was resolved to pursue "a conduct friendly and impartial toward the belligerent Powers" while he warned Americans not to intervene in the international conflict Although Washington recognized France's revolutionary government he would eventually ask French minister to America Citizen Genet be recalled over the Citizen Genet Affair. Genet was a diplomatic troublemaker who was openly hostile toward Washington's neutrality policy and had procured four American ships as privateers to strike at Spanish forces British allies in Florida while organizing militias to strike at other British possessions but his efforts failed to draw America into the foreign campaigns during Washington's presidency. On July 31 1793 Jefferson submitted his resignation from Washington's cabinet in March 1794 Washington signed the Naval Act which founded the U.S Navy and he commissioned the first six federal frigates to combat Barbary pirates. .