Tariff of 1828 South Branch nomenclature Higher education In July 1861 the US issued paper currency for the first time the currency became known greenbacks because it was printed in green on the reverse side. Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry Nearly all of the 55 Constitutional Convention delegates had some experience in colonial and state government and the majority had held county and local offices. Those who lacked national congressional experience were Bassett Blair Brearly Broom Davie Dayton Alexander Martin Luther Martin Mason McClurg Paterson Charles Pinckney Strong and Yates; . . Burning of the Gaspee Washington owned slaves for labor and trading and supported measures passed by Congress protecting slavery in order to preserve national unity He later became troubled with the institution of slavery and freed his slaves in a 1799 will He endeavored to assimilate Native Americans into Western culture but responded to their hostility in times of war He was a member of the Anglican Church and the Freemasons and he urged broad religious freedom in his roles as general and president Upon his death he was eulogized as "first in war first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen." He has been memorialized by monuments art geographical locations stamps and currency and many scholars and polls rank him among the greatest American presidents, Washington D.C is a prominent center for national and international media the Washington Post founded in 1877 is the oldest and most-read local daily newspaper in Washington. "The Post" as it is popularly called is well known as the newspaper that exposed the Watergate scandal it had the sixth-highest readership of all news dailies in the country in 2011 the Washington Post Company also publishes a daily free commuter newspaper called the Express which summarizes events sports and entertainment as well as the Spanish-language paper El Tiempo Latino, Malaysia: Kuala Lumpur is the constitutional capital home of the King and seat of Parliament but the federal administrative centre and judiciary have been moved 30 kilometres (19 mi) south to Putrajaya; In mid-1779 Washington attacked Iroquois warriors of the Six Nations in order to force Britain's Indian allies out of New York from which they had assaulted New England towns the Indian warriors joined with Tory rangers led by Walter Butler and viciously slew more than 200 frontiersmen in June laying waste to the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania in response Washington ordered General John Sullivan to lead an expedition to effect "the total destruction and devastation" of Iroquois villages and take their women and children hostage Those who managed to escape fled to Canada.
. Further information: Civil War Defenses of Washington, Emancipation Proclamation African-American history and culture scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr wrote:, 9.1.1 Liberalism The U.S settlers surging into the newly conquered Southwest were openly contemptuous of Mexican law (a civil law system based on the law of Spain) as alien and inferior and disposed of it by enacting reception statutes at the first available opportunity However they recognized the value of a few aspects of Mexican law and carried them over into their new legal systems for example most of the southwestern states adopted community property marital property systems as well as water law. .
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