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. . Universities Main articles: Abraham Lincoln and slavery and Emancipation Proclamation. During the American Civil War tremendous resources were expended to defend Washington D.C which bordered on the Confederate States of America (with the Commonwealth of Virginia) from Confederate attack even though the relatively small federal government could easily have been moved elsewhere Likewise great resources were expended by the Confederacy in defending the Confederate capital from attack by the Union in its exposed location of Richmond Virginia barely 100 miles (160 km) south of Washington D.C.

. Sociologist Barry Schwartz argues that in the 1930s and 1940s the memory of Abraham Lincoln was practically sacred and provided the nation with "a moral symbol inspiring and guiding American life" During the Great Depression he argues Lincoln served "as a means for seeing the world's disappointments for making its sufferings not so much explicable as meaningful" Franklin D Roosevelt preparing America for war used the words of the Civil War president to clarify the threat posed by Germany and Japan Americans asked "What would Lincoln do?":xi 9 24 However Schwartz also finds that since World War II Lincoln's symbolic power has lost relevance and this "fading hero is symptomatic of fading confidence in national greatness" He suggested that postmodernism and multiculturalism have diluted greatness as a concept.:xi 9, In 1751 Washington made his only trip abroad when he accompanied Lawrence to Barbados hoping that the climate would cure his brother's tuberculosis. Washington contracted smallpox during that trip which immunized him but left his face slightly scarred. Lawrence died in 1752 and Washington leased Mount Vernon from his widow; he inherited it outright after her death in 1761.