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Thirteenth Amendment to the US constitution 18 Dec 1865. .

2.1.1 Colleges attended Main article: Congressional Budget Office; In May Scott pushed on to Puebla the second largest city in Mexico Because of the citizens' hostility to Santa Anna the city capitulated without resistance on May 1 During the following months Scott gathered supplies and reinforcements at Puebla and sent back units whose enlistments had expired Scott also made strong efforts to keep his troops disciplined and treat the Mexican people under occupation justly so as to prevent a popular rising against his army, Pause at Puebla The sappers and miners of the Corps of Royal Engineers under Captain Blanshard were employed in burning the principal buildings Blanshard reported that it seemed that the American President was so sure that the attacking force would be made prisoners that a handsome entertainment had been prepared Blanshard and his sappers enjoyed the feast.:358! . Property qualifications for voting and even more substantial requirements for elected positions (though New York and Maryland lowered property qualifications) The American colonials proclaimed "no taxation without representation" starting with the Stamp Act Congress in 1765 They rejected the authority of the British Parliament to tax them because they had no representatives in that governing body Protests steadily escalated to the Boston Massacre in 1770 and the burning of the Gaspee in Rhode Island in 1772 followed by the Boston Tea Party in December 1773 the British responded by closing Boston Harbor and enacting a series of punitive laws which effectively rescinded Massachusetts Bay Colony's rights of self-government the other colonies rallied behind Massachusetts and a group of American Patriot leaders set up their own government in late 1774 at the Continental Congress to coordinate their resistance of Britain; other colonists retained their allegiance to the Crown and were known as Loyalists or Tories. Washington is one of 13 cities in the United States with teams from all four major professional men's sports and is home to one major professional women's team the Washington Wizards (National Basketball Association) the Washington Capitals (National Hockey League) and the Washington Mystics (Women's National Basketball Association) play at the Capital One Arena in Chinatown Nationals Park which opened in Southeast D.C in 2008 is home to the Washington Nationals (Major League Baseball) D.C United (Major League Soccer) plays at Audi Field the Washington Redskins (National Football League) play at FedExField in nearby Landover Maryland, 5 Unusual capital city arrangements The acquisition was a source of controversy especially among U.S politicians who had opposed the war from the start a leading antiwar U.S newspaper the Whig National Intelligencer sardonically concluded that "We take nothing by conquest . Thank God.". Slaveholders primarily in the South had considerable "loss of property" as thousands of slaves escaped to British lines or ships for freedom despite the difficulties the planters' complacency about slave "contentment" was shocked by seeing that slaves would risk so much to be free. Afterward when some freed slaves had been settled at Bermuda slaveholders such as Major Pierce Butler of South Carolina tried to persuade them to return to the United States to no avail. Further information: Early life and career of Abraham Lincoln and Abraham Lincoln in the Black Hawk War Congress passed the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801 that officially organized the District and placed the entire territory under the exclusive control of the federal government Further the unincorporated area within the District was organized into two counties: the County of Washington to the east of the Potomac and the County of Alexandria to the west. After the passage of this Act citizens living in the District were no longer considered residents of Maryland or Virginia which therefore ended their representation in Congress. Map of land use in the watershed.