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Main articles: George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River Battle of Trenton and Battle of Princeton The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified in 1961 granting the District three votes in the Electoral College for the election of president and vice president but still no voting representation in Congress. Jefferson and Hamilton bitter rivals Northern antislavery elements feared the expansion of the Southern Slave Power; Whigs generally wanted to strengthen the economy with industrialization not expand it with more land Among the most vocal opposing the war in the House of Representatives was John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts Adams had first voiced concerns about expanding into Mexican territory in 1836 when he opposed Texas annexation He continued this argument in 1846 for the same reason War with Mexico would add new slavery territory to the nation When the vote to go to war with Mexico came to a vote on May 13 Adams spoke a resounding "No!" in the chamber Only 13 others followed his lead However he later voted for war appropriations.:151; Washington dealt with major problems the old Confederation lacked the powers to handle its workload and had weak leadership no executive a small bureaucracy of clerks a large debt worthless paper money and no power to establish taxes. He had the task of assembling an executive department and relied on Tobias Lear for advice selecting its officers. Great Britain refused to relinquish its forts in the American West and Barbary pirates preyed on American merchant ships in the Mediterranean at a time when the United States did not even have a navy. 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, 17 Further reading Washington as Farmer at Mount Vernon! A group of men sitting at a table as another man creates money on a wooden machine. Relatively weak governors without veto powers and with little appointing authority, 11 Effects of the Revolution Yogyakarta Indonesia (1946). 4.2.3 Congressional Budget Office, Tariff of 1828, About 17% of D.C residents were age 18 or younger in 2010; lower than the U.S average of 24% However at 34 years old the District had the lowest median age compared to the 50 states as of 2010 there were an estimated 81,734 immigrants living in Washington D.C. Major sources of immigration include El Salvador Vietnam and Ethiopia with a concentration of Salvadorans in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood.

Christopher Gadsden South Carolina 1 Yes After the war the great majority of the approximately 500,000 Loyalists remained in America and resumed normal lives Some became prominent American leaders such as Samuel Seabury Approximately 46,000 Loyalists relocated to Canada; others moved to Britain (7,000) Florida or the West Indies (9,000) the exiles represented approximately two percent of the total population of the colonies. Nearly all black loyalists left for Nova Scotia Florida or England where they could remain free. Loyalists who left the South in 1783 took thousands of their slaves with them to be slaves in the British West Indies. . .