Montenegro: the official capital Podgorica is home to the parliament and the executive but the seat of the presidency is in the former royal capital of Cetinje, Free blacks in the North and South fought on both sides of the Revolution but most fought for the Patriots Gary Nash reports that there were about 9,000 black Patriots counting the Continental Army and Navy state militia units privateers wagoneers in the Army servants to officers and spies. Ray Raphael notes that thousands did join the Loyalist cause but "a far larger number free as well as slave tried to further their interests by siding with the patriots." Crispus Attucks was shot dead by British soldiers in the Boston Massacre in 1770 and is considered the first American casualty of the Revolutionary War. 9 See also In Pennsylvania New Jersey and New Hampshire the resulting constitutions embodied:! A large majority of profit-oriented free black slaveholders resided in the Lower South For the most part they were persons of mixed racial origin often women who cohabited or were mistresses of white men or mulatto men . Provided land and slaves by whites they owned farms and plantations worked their hands in the rice cotton and sugar fields and like their white contemporaries were troubled with runaways. Scotland: Wilson and Witherspoon Mansfield Lovell Further information: Massachusetts Circular Letter Boston Massacre and Boston Tea Party, Manning Force The great majority were born in the Thirteen Colonies But at least nine were born in other parts of the British Empire:.
. 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. White 38.5% 29.6% 27.7% 71.5% Territorial government Contents The District's four NCAA Division I teams American Eagles George Washington Colonials Georgetown Hoyas and Howard Bison and Lady Bison have a broad following the Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team is the most notable and also plays at the Capital One Arena From 2008 to 2012 the District hosted an annual college football bowl game at RFK Stadium called the Military Bowl the D.C area is home to one regional sports television network Comcast SportsNet (CSN) based in Bethesda Maryland. A Timothy Cole wood engraving taken from a May 20 1860 ambrotype of Lincoln two days following his nomination for president. .
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