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. Slaveholders began to refer to slavery as the "peculiar institution" to differentiate it from other examples of forced labor They justified it as less cruel than the free labor of the North. Ricord General Hospital Washington D.C. Business Directory Judicial appointments Seated suits behind a microphone. Washington D.C. Business Directory, The Potomac River surges over the deck of Chain Bridge during the historic 1936 flood the bridge was so severely damaged by the raging water and the debris it carried that its superstructure had to be re-built; the new bridge was opened to traffic in 1939 (This photograph was taken from a vantage point on Glebe Road in Arlington County Virginia the houses on the bluffs in the background are located on the Potomac Palisades of Washington DC.), Lincoln's assassination Most Indians did not participate directly in the war except for warriors and bands associated with four of the Iroquois tribes in New York and Pennsylvania which allied with the British the British did have other allies especially in the upper Midwest They provided Indians with funding and weapons to attack American outposts Some Indians tried to remain neutral seeing little value in joining what they perceived to be a European conflict and fearing reprisals from whichever side they opposed the Oneida and Tuscarora tribes among the Iroquois of central and western New York supported the American cause the British provided arms to Indians who were led by Loyalists in war parties to raid frontier settlements from the Carolinas to New York They killed many settlers on the frontier especially in Pennsylvania and New York's Mohawk Valley. Choice of location Romero led an Indian force to the house of Governor Charles Bent where they broke down the door shot Bent with arrows and scalped him in front of his family They moved on leaving Bent still alive With his wife Ignacia and children and the wives of friends Kit Carson and Thomas Boggs the group escaped by digging through the adobe walls of their house into the one next door When the insurgents discovered the party they killed Bent but left the women and children unharmed. Washington D.C. Business Directory James Hopkinson's Plantation Planting sweet potatoes ca 1862/63 6.7 Desertion Matthew Tilghman Maryland 1 Yes 1.1 Origins 7.2 The Civil War. Lobbying depends on cultivating personal relationships over many years Photo: Lobbyist Tony Podesta (left) with former senator Kay Hagan (center) and her husband.

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