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Congress created the Continental Army on June 14 1775 and Samuel Adams and John Adams nominated Washington to become its commander in chief Washington was chosen over John Hancock because of his military experience and the belief that a Virginian would better unite the colonies He was considered an incisive leader who kept his "ambition in check." He was unanimously elected commander in chief by Congress the next day. . Shays' Rebellion confirmed for Washington the need to overhaul the Articles of Confederation William Wells Brown who escaped to freedom reported that on one plantation slave men were required to pick 80 pounds per day of cotton while women were required to pick 70 pounds; if any slave failed in his or her quota they were subject to whip lashes for each pound they were short the whipping post stood next to the cotton scales a New York man who attended a slave auction in the mid-19th century reported that at least three-quarters of the male slaves he saw at sale had scars on their backs from whipping by contrast small slave-owning families had closer relationships between the owners and slaves; this sometimes resulted in a more humane environment but was not a given. An average of approximately 486 million US gallons (1,840,000 m3) of water is withdrawn daily from the Potomac in the Washington area for water supply providing about 78 percent of the region's total water usage this amount includes approximately 80 percent of the drinking water consumed by the region's estimated 6,100,000 residents, Scott's Mexico City campaign, Bicentennial logo 4.2 Support services Second Battle of Tabasco. .

. California Campaign Distribution of slaveholders In 1822 the ACS established the colony of Liberia in West Africa the ACS assisted thousands of freedmen and free blacks (with legislated limits) to emigrate there from the United States Many white people considered this preferable to emancipation in the United States Henry Clay one of the founders and a prominent slaveholder politician from Kentucky said that blacks faced, Noah Haynes Swayne January 21 1862 January 24 1862 Washington D.C has been a member state of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) since 2015. . American Slavery As it Is Losing the war and the Thirteen Colonies was a shock to Britain the war revealed the limitations of Britain's fiscal-military state when they discovered that they suddenly faced powerful enemies with no allies and they were dependent on extended and vulnerable transatlantic lines of communication the defeat heightened dissension and escalated political antagonism to the King's ministers Inside Parliament the primary concern changed from fears of an over-mighty monarch to the issues of representation parliamentary reform and government retrenchment Reformers sought to destroy what they saw as widespread institutional corruption, and the result was a crisis from 1776 to 1783 the peace in 1783 left France financially prostrate while the British economy boomed thanks to the return of American business the crisis ended after 1784 thanks to the King's shrewdness in outwitting Charles James Fox (the leader of the Fox-North Coalition) and renewed confidence in the system engendered by the leadership of Prime Minister William Pitt Some historians suggest that loss of the American colonies enabled Britain to deal with the French Revolution with more unity and better organization than would otherwise have been the case. Britain turned towards Asia the Pacific and later Africa with subsequent exploration leading to the rise of the Second British Empire. . 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, As early as 1651 the English government had sought to regulate trade in the American colonies On October 9 the Navigation Acts were passed pursuant to a mercantilist policy intended to ensure that trade enriched only Great Britain and barring trade with foreign nations. Some argue that the economic impact was minimal on the colonists, but the political friction which the acts triggered was more serious as the merchants most directly affected were most politically active. King Philip's War ended in 1678 and much of it was fought without significant assistance from England This contributed to the development of a unique identity separate from that of the British people, Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States by Howard Chandler Christy (1940). .