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The South Branch near South Branch Depot West Virginia, 9.2 Native Americans holding African-American slaves Thomas Lynch South Carolina 1 Yes! 1 Reasons 1842 Slave Revolt in the Cherokee Nation 13.1 Official Clymer was a member of the Philadelphia Committee of Safety and the Continental Congress.

Fugitive Slave Law Origins of the war In 1608 Captain John Smith explored the river now known as the Potomac and made drawings of his observations which were later compiled into a map and published in London in 1612 This detail from that map shows his rendition of the river that the local tribes had told him was called the "Patawomeck". As the war progressed the overcrowding severely strained the city's water supply the Army Corps of Engineers constructed a new aqueduct that brought 10,000 US gallons (38,000 l; 8,300 imp gal) of fresh water to the city each day.[clarification needed] Police and fire protection was beefed up and work resumed to complete the unfinished dome of the Capitol Building However for most of the war Washington suffered from unpaved streets poor sanitation and garbage collection swarms of mosquitos facilitated by the dank canals and sewers and poor ventilation in most public (and private) buildings. This would change in the decade to follow under the leadership District Governor Alexander "Boss" Shepherd, 2010 601,723 5.2% Josiah Bartlett New Hampshire 2 Yes Yes, Thomas Lynch Jr. South Carolina 1 Yes 6.8.4 Advance on Mexico City and its capture. US President John Tyler's administration suggested a tripartite pact that would settle the Oregon boundary dispute and provide for the cession of the port of San Francisco from Mexico Lord Aberdeen declined to participate but said Britain had no objection to U.S territorial acquisition there the British minister in Mexico Richard Pakenham wrote in 1841 to Lord Palmerston urging "to establish an English population in the magnificent Territory of Upper California" saying that "no part of the World offering greater natural advantages for the establishment of an English colony .. by all means desirable . that California once ceasing to belong to Mexico should not fall into the hands of any power but England . daring and adventurous speculators in the United States have already turned their thoughts in this direction." But by the time the letter reached London Sir Robert Peel's Tory government with its Little England policy had come to power and rejected the proposal as expensive and a potential source of conflict. .