Demonym(s) Washingtonian Memory and memorials, Blizzards affect Washington on average once every four to six years the most violent storms are called "nor'easters" which often affect large sections of the East Coast. From January 27 to January 28 1922 the city officially received 28 inches (71 cm) of snowfall the largest snowstorm since official measurements began in 1885. According to notes kept at the time the city received between 30 and 36 inches (76 and 91 cm) from a snowstorm in January 1772, The main result of congressional activity is the creation of laws, most of which are contained in the United States Code arranged by subject matter alphabetically under fifty title headings to present the laws "in a concise and usable form". .
14 Further reading In May Scott pushed on to Puebla the second largest city in Mexico Because of the citizens' hostility to Santa Anna the city capitulated without resistance on May 1 During the following months Scott gathered supplies and reinforcements at Puebla and sent back units whose enlistments had expired Scott also made strong efforts to keep his troops disciplined and treat the Mexican people under occupation justly so as to prevent a popular rising against his army, The Virginia General Assembly voted in February 1846 to accept the return of Alexandria and on July 9 1846 Congress agreed to return all the territory that had been ceded by Virginia Therefore the District's current area consists only of the portion originally donated by Maryland. Confirming the fears of pro-slavery Alexandrians the Compromise of 1850 outlawed the slave trade in the District although not slavery itself. 16.3 Historiography The invention of the cotton gin in 1793 enabled the cultivation of short-staple cotton in a wide variety of mainland areas leading to the development of large areas of the Deep South as cotton country in the 19th century Rice cultivation and tobacco were very labor-intensive in 1720 about 65% of South Carolina's population was enslaved. Planters (defined by historians in the Upper South as those who held 20 enslaved people or more) used enslaved workers to cultivate commodity crops They also worked in the artisanal trades on large plantations and in many southern port cities Backwoods subsistence farmers the later wave of settlers in the 18th century who settled along the Appalachian Mountains and backcountry seldom held enslaved people, 1811 German Coast Uprising (1811) A 1774 etching from the London Magazine copied by Paul Revere of Boston Prime Minister Lord North author of the Boston Port Act forces the Intolerable Acts down the throat of America whose arms are restrained by Lord Chief Justice Mansfield while the 4th Earl of Sandwich pins down her feet and peers up her skirt Behind them Mother Britannia weeps helplessly while France and Spain look on.
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