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A 2007 report found that about one-third of District residents were functionally illiterate compared to a national rate of about one in five This is attributed in part to immigrants who are not proficient in English as of 2011 85% of D.C residents age 5 and older spoke English at home as a primary language. Half of residents had at least a four-year college degree in 2006 in 2017 the median household income in D.C was $77,649; also in 2017 D.C residents had a personal income per capita of $50,832 (higher than any of the 50 states). However 19% of residents were below the poverty level in 2005 higher than any state except Mississippi.[f], Washington National In 1830 a disgruntled ex-employee of the estate attempted to steal what he thought was Washington's skull prompting the construction of a more secure vault the next year the new vault was constructed at Mount Vernon to receive the remains of George and Martha and other relatives in 1832 a joint Congressional committee debated moving his body from Mount Vernon to a crypt in the Capitol the crypt had been built by architect Charles Bulfinch in the 1820s during the reconstruction of the burned-out capital after the Burning of Washington by the British during the War of 1812 Southern opposition was intense antagonized by an ever-growing rift between North and South; many were concerned that Washington's remains could end up on "a shore foreign to his native soil" if the country became divided and Washington's remains stayed in Mount Vernon. Concourses a and B 5.1 Roads 6.1.3 Television and negative advertising Members of Congress enjoy parliamentary privilege including freedom from arrest in all cases except for treason felony and breach of the peace and freedom of speech in debate This constitutionally derived immunity applies to members during sessions and when traveling to and from sessions the term arrest has been interpreted broadly and includes any detention or delay in the course of law enforcement including court summons and subpoenas the rules of the House strictly guard this privilege; a member may not waive the privilege on their own but must seek the permission of the whole house to do so Senate rules however are less strict and permit individual senators to waive the privilege as they choose. The US Treasury Building (built 1804). Once the abolition of slavery in the rebel states became a military objective Union armies advancing south liberated three million slaves Lincoln's comment on the signing of the Proclamation was: "I never in my life felt more certain that I was doing right than I do in signing this paper.":407 Lincoln continued earlier plans to set up colonies for the newly freed slaves He supported this in the Proclamation but the undertaking failed.:408, United Nations Headquarters New York City, Later a raid against the guerrillas of Padre Jarauta at Zacualtipan (February 25 1848) further reduced guerrilla raids on the American line of communications After the two governments concluded a truce to await ratification of the peace treaty on March 6 1848 formal hostilities ceased However some bands continued in defiance of the Mexican government until the American evacuation in August. Some were suppressed by the Mexican Army or like Padre Jarauta executed. . . Main article: Women in the American Revolution, relatively weak governors without veto powers and with little appointing authority, Settlement of borders As early as 1651 the English government had sought to regulate trade in the American colonies On October 9 the Navigation Acts were passed pursuant to a mercantilist policy intended to ensure that trade enriched only Great Britain and barring trade with foreign nations. Some argue that the economic impact was minimal on the colonists, but the political friction which the acts triggered was more serious as the merchants most directly affected were most politically active. King Philip's War ended in 1678 and much of it was fought without significant assistance from England This contributed to the development of a unique identity separate from that of the British people.

A new and permanent C/D concourse (also called "Tier 2") is planned as part of the D2 Dulles Development Project the new building is to include a three-level structure with 44 airline gates and similar amenities to Concourse B the concourse plan includes a dedicated mezzanine corridor with moving sidewalks to serve international passengers the design and construction of the new C/D concourse has not been scheduled. When built it is planned that both terminals will be connected to the main terminal and other concourses via the AeroTrain to that extent the AeroTrain station at Concourse C was built at the location where the future Concourse C/D structure is proposed to be built and is connected to the existing Concourse C via an underground walkway, Beginning in late December 1778 they captured Savannah and controlled the Georgia coastline in 1780 they launched a fresh invasion and took Charleston as well a significant victory at the Battle of Camden meant that royal forces soon controlled most of Georgia and South Carolina the British set up a network of forts inland hoping that the Loyalists would rally to the flag. Not enough Loyalists turned out however and the British had to fight their way north into North Carolina and Virginia with a severely weakened army Behind them much of the territory that they had already captured dissolved into a chaotic guerrilla war fought predominantly between bands of Loyalists and American militia which negated many of the gains that the British had previously made. . In April 1776 the North Carolina Provincial Congress issued the Halifax Resolves explicitly authorizing its delegates to vote for independence by June nine Provincial Congresses were ready for independence; one by one the last four fell into line: Pennsylvania Delaware Maryland and New York Richard Henry Lee was instructed by the Virginia legislature to propose independence and he did so on June 7 1776 On June 11 a committee was created to draft a document explaining the justifications for separation from Britain After securing enough votes for passage independence was voted for on July 2, Washington's death came more swiftly than expected at his deathbed he instructed his private secretary Tobias Lear to wait three days before his burial out of fear of being entombed alive. According to Lear he died peacefully between 10 and 11 p.m on Saturday December 14 1799 with Martha seated at the foot of his bed and his last words were "'Tis well" from his conversation with Lear about his burial He was 67. 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, Before the secession of Texas Mexico comprised almost 1,700,000 sq mi (4,400,000 km2) but by 1849 it was just under 800,000 square miles (2,100,000 km2) Another 30,000 square miles (78,000 km2) were sold to the U.S in the Gadsden Purchase of 1853 so the total reduction of Mexican territory was more than 55% or 900,000 square miles (2,300,000 km2), 8.4 Political legacy Amaravati Andhra Pradesh India (2016) Matthew Tilghman Maryland 1 Yes. Further information: Post-presidency of George Washington.