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Main article: Abolitionism in the United States Washington D.C. Business Directory, 1990 86.2% 140,011 11.5% 18,653 In 1990 a United States Senate joint resolution to change Dulles's name to Washington Eisenhower was proposed by Senator Bob Dole but it didn't pass. . A large crowd in front of a large building with many pillars At the beginning of the war some Union commanders thought they were supposed to return escaped slaves to their masters by 1862 when it became clear that this would be a long war the question of what to do about slavery became more general the Southern economy and military effort depended on slave labor it began to seem unreasonable to protect slavery while blockading Southern commerce and destroying Southern production as Congressman George W Julian of Indiana put it in an 1862 speech in Congress the slaves "cannot be neutral as laborers if not as soldiers they will be allies of the rebels or of the Union." Julian and his fellow Radical Republicans put pressure on Lincoln to rapidly emancipate the slaves whereas moderate Republicans came to accept gradual compensated emancipation and colonization. Copperheads the border states and War Democrats opposed emancipation although the border states and War Democrats eventually accepted it as part of total war needed to save the Union. In much of the United States victory and the acquisition of new land brought a surge of patriotism Victory seemed to fulfill Democrats' belief in their country's Manifest Destiny While Whig Ralph Waldo Emerson rejected war "as a means of achieving America's destiny," he accepted that "most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means." Although the Whigs had opposed the war they made Zachary Taylor their presidential candidate in the election of 1848 praising his military performance while muting their criticism of the war; . Based on the President's war powers the Emancipation Proclamation applied to territory held by Confederates at the time However the Proclamation became a symbol of the Union's growing commitment to add emancipation to the Union's definition of liberty. Lincoln played a leading role in getting the constitutionally-required two-thirds majority of both houses of Congress to vote for the Thirteenth Amendment, which made emancipation universal and permanent. An encounter was noted between Sir George Cockburn and a female resident of Washington "Dear God! is this the weather to which you are accustomed to in this infernal country?" enquired the Admiral "This is a special interposition of Providence to drive our enemies from our city" the woman allegedly called out to Cockburn "Not so Madam" Cockburn retorted "It is rather to aid your enemies in the destruction of your city" before riding off on horseback. Yet the British left right after the storm completely unopposed by any American military forces What makes this event even more serendipitous for the Americans is that as the Smithsonian reports there have only been seven other tornadoes recorded in Washington D.C in the 204 years since with probably a similar rare occurrence in the years prior to this event, 13 Notes As many as thirty-five including Adams Hamilton Jefferson Madison and Jay were trained as lawyers though not all of them practiced law Some had also been local judges.

Apologies Consequently many black and white religious organizations former Union Army officers and soldiers and wealthy philanthropists were inspired to create and fund educational efforts specifically for the betterment of African Americans; some African Americans had started their own schools before the end of the war Northerners helped create numerous normal schools such as those that became Hampton University and Tuskegee University to generate teachers as well as other colleges for former slaves Blacks held teaching as a high calling with education the first priority for children and adults Many of the most talented went into the field Some of the schools took years to reach a high standard but they managed to get thousands of teachers started as W E B Du Bois noted the black colleges were not perfect but "in a single generation they put thirty thousand black teachers in the South" and "wiped out the illiteracy of the majority of black people in the land". Missouri Compromise The South Fork South Branch Potomac River forms just north of U.S Route 250 in Highland County Virginia near Monterey and flows 68.4 miles (110.1 km) north-northeastward to the South Branch Potomac River at Moorefield in Hardy County West Virginia From 1896 to 1929 it was named the Moorefield River by the Board on Geographic Names to avoid confusion with the South Branch.