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In response Massachusetts patriots issued the Suffolk Resolves and formed an alternative shadow government known as the "Provincial Congress" which began training militia outside British-occupied Boston in September 1774 the First Continental Congress convened consisting of representatives from each of the colonies to serve as a vehicle for deliberation and collective action During secret debates conservative Joseph Galloway proposed the creation of a colonial Parliament that would be able to approve or disapprove of acts of the British Parliament but his idea was not accepted the Congress instead endorsed the proposal of John Adams that Americans would obey Parliament voluntarily but would resist all taxes in disguise Congress called for a boycott beginning on 1 December 1774 of all British goods; it was enforced by new committees authorized by the Congress! Washington D.C citizens alone among U.S territories have the right to directly vote for the President of the United States although the Democratic and Republican political parties nominate their presidential candidates at national conventions which include delegates from the five major territories, The delay of hostilities for ten years allowed the free economy of the northern states to continue to industrialize the southern states largely based on slave labor and cash crop production lacked the ability to industrialize heavily by 1860 the northern states had added many more miles of railroad steel production modern factories and population to the advantages already possessed in 1850 the North was better able to supply equip and man its armed forces which would prove decisive in the later stages of the war. Portrait of George Washington and his valet slave William Lee Major-General Robert Ross British commander who led the attack on Washington. Sister cities This section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. . John Mathews South Carolina 1 Yes Lufthansa: Senator Lounge and Business Lounge B Concourse at gate B51. Taylor died in July 1850 and was succeeded by Vice President Fillmore who had privately come to support Clay's proposal the various bills were initially combined into one "omnibus" bill Despite Clay's efforts it failed in a crucial vote on July 31 opposed by southern Democrats and by northern Whigs He announced on the Senate floor the next day that he intended to pass each individual part of the bill the 73-year-old Clay however was physically exhausted as the effects of tuberculosis which would eventually kill him began to take their toll Clay left the Senate to recuperate in Newport Rhode Island and Senator Stephen A Douglas took the lead in attempting to pass Clay's proposals through the Senate, Hessian troops hired out to the British by their German sovereigns.