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Shown in the presidential booth of Ford's Theatre from left to right are assassin John Wilkes Booth Abraham Lincoln Mary Todd Lincoln Clara Harris and Henry Rathbone. The National Gallery of Art is on the National Mall near the Capitol and features works of American and European art the gallery and its collections are owned by the U.S government but are not a part of the Smithsonian Institution the National Building Museum which occupies the former Pension Building near Judiciary Square was chartered by Congress and hosts exhibits on architecture urban planning and design, The Americans protested that Britain's failure to return all slaves violated the Treaty of Ghent After arbitration by the Tsar of Russia the British paid $1,204,960 in damages (about $26.7 million in today's money) to Washington which reimbursed the slaveowners, Further information: Presidents of the United States on U.S postage stamps. . 4.5 Valley Forge and Monmouth Vines and Groundcover of the Potomac River Basin, Ankara Turkey (2011) Defending the Revolution. Main article: Constitutional Convention (United States) In response to two antislavery petitions Georgia and South Carolina objected and were threatening to "blow the trumpet of civil war" Washington and Congress responded with a series of pro-slavery measures: citizenship was denied to black immigrants; slaves were barred from serving in state militias; two more slave states (Kentucky in 1792 Tennessee in 1796) were admitted; and the continuation of slavery in federal territories south of the Ohio River was guaranteed On February 12 1793 Washington signed into law the Fugitive Slave Act which overrode state laws and courts allowing agents to cross state lines to capture and return escaped slaves. Many in the north decried the law believing the act allowed bounty hunting and the kidnappings of blacks the Slave Trade Act of 1794 limiting American involvement in the Atlantic slave trade was also enacted.

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. In 1641 Massachusetts became the first colony to authorize slavery through enacted law. Massachusetts passed the Body of Liberties which prohibited slavery in many instances but allowed slaves to be held if they were captives of war if they sold themselves into slavery or were purchased elsewhere or if they were sentenced to slavery as punishment by the governing authority the Body of Liberties used the word "strangers" to refer to people bought and sold as slaves; they were generally not English subjects Colonists came to equate this term with Native Americans and Africans, The first draft of the compromise of 1850 had Texas's northwestern boundary be a straight diagonal line from the Rio Grande 20 miles north of El Paso to the Red River (Mississippi watershed) at the 100th meridian west the southwestern corner of today's Oklahoma. . The divisions became fully exposed with the 1860 presidential election the electorate split four ways the Southern Democrats endorsed slavery while the Republicans denounced it the Northern Democrats said democracy required the people to decide on slavery locally state by state and territory by territory the Constitutional Union Party said the survival of the Union was at stake and everything else should be compromised, In a 1778 letter to Lund Washington he made clear his desire "to get quit of Negroes" when discussing the exchange of slaves for land he wanted to buy the next year he stated his intention not to separate families as a result of "a change of masters." During the 1780s Washington privately expressed his support for gradual emancipation of slaves. Between 1783 and 1786 he gave moral support to a plan proposed by Lafayette to purchase land and free slaves to work on it but declined to participate in the experiment. Washington privately expressed support for emancipation to prominent Methodists Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury in 1785 but declined to sign their petition in personal correspondence the next year he made clear his desire to see the institution of slavery ended by a gradual legislative process a view that correlated with the mainstream antislavery literature published in the 1780s that Washington possessed, Protestant churches that had separated from the Church of England (called "dissenters") were the "school of democracy" in the words of historian Patricia Bonomi. Before the Revolution the Southern Colonies and three of the New England Colonies had officially established churches:[clarification needed] Congregational in Massachusetts Bay Connecticut and New Hampshire and Anglican in Maryland Virginia North-Carolina South Carolina and Georgia New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware and the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations had no officially established churches. Church membership statistics from the period are unreliable and scarce, but what little data exists indicates that Anglicans were not in the majority not even in the colonies where the Church of England was the established church and they probably did not comprise even 30 percent of the population (with the possible exception of Virginia). .