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The District of Columbia including Washington or adjoining Georgetown was the birthplace of several Union army generals and naval admirals as well as a leading Confederate commander, On April 22 1793 during the French Revolution Washington issued his famous Neutrality Proclamation and was resolved to pursue "a conduct friendly and impartial toward the belligerent Powers" while he warned Americans not to intervene in the international conflict Although Washington recognized France's revolutionary government he would eventually ask French minister to America Citizen Genet be recalled over the Citizen Genet Affair. Genet was a diplomatic troublemaker who was openly hostile toward Washington's neutrality policy and had procured four American ships as privateers to strike at Spanish forces British allies in Florida while organizing militias to strike at other British possessions but his efforts failed to draw America into the foreign campaigns during Washington's presidency. On July 31 1793 Jefferson submitted his resignation from Washington's cabinet in March 1794 Washington signed the Naval Act which founded the U.S Navy and he commissioned the first six federal frigates to combat Barbary pirates. Main articles: Sugar Act Currency Act Quartering Acts Stamp Act 1765 and Declaratory Act, After Taylor died and was succeeded by Fillmore Douglas took the lead in passing Clay's compromise through Congress as five separate bills Under the compromise Texas surrendered its claims to present-day New Mexico and other states in return for federal assumption of Texas's public debt California was admitted as a free state while the remaining portions of the Mexican Cession were organized into New Mexico Territory and Utah Territory Under the concept of popular sovereignty the people of each territory would decide whether or not slavery would be permitted the compromise also included a more stringent Fugitive Slave Law and banned the slave trade in Washington D.C the issue of slavery in the territories would be re-opened by the Kansas-Nebraska Act but many historians argue that the Compromise of 1850 played a major role in postponing the American Civil War, President Lincoln's 75,000 volunteers. A tall red brick building in the center of a city skyline punctuated by steeples and other shorter buildings. .

Enslaved African Americans had not waited for Lincoln before escaping and seeking freedom behind Union lines From early years of the war hundreds of thousands of African Americans escaped to Union lines especially in Union-controlled areas such as Norfolk and the Hampton Roads region in 1862 Virginia Tennessee from 1862 on the line of Sherman's march etc So many African Americans fled to Union lines that commanders created camps and schools for them where both adults and children learned to read and write the American Missionary Association entered the war effort by sending teachers south to such contraband camps for instance establishing schools in Norfolk and on nearby plantations, 16 Bibliography 3 Illinois state legislature Flag of Washington D.C The most famous and most visited memorials are Lincoln's sculpture on Mount Rushmore; Lincoln Memorial Ford's Theatre and Petersen House (where he died) in Washington D.C.; and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield Illinois not far from Lincoln's home as well as his tomb; . Construction of the 12-story Cairo Apartment Building (1894) spurred building height restrictions, The District was governed directly by the U.S Congress from the beginning Alexandria City and County were ceded back from the federal government to the commonwealth of Virginia in 1846 in a process known as retrocession anticipating the 1850 ban on slave trading (but not slavery) in the District. The first scheduled flight at Dulles was an Eastern Air Lines Super Electra from Newark International Airport in New Jersey on November 19 1962. . ; .