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2.3.2 Concourses C and D The American colonials proclaimed "no taxation without representation" starting with the Stamp Act Congress in 1765 They rejected the authority of the British Parliament to tax them because they had no representatives in that governing body Protests steadily escalated to the Boston Massacre in 1770 and the burning of the Gaspee in Rhode Island in 1772 followed by the Boston Tea Party in December 1773 the British responded by closing Boston Harbor and enacting a series of punitive laws which effectively rescinded Massachusetts Bay Colony's rights of self-government the other colonies rallied behind Massachusetts and a group of American Patriot leaders set up their own government in late 1774 at the Continental Congress to coordinate their resistance of Britain; other colonists retained their allegiance to the Crown and were known as Loyalists or Tories. The Kennedy Center for Performing Arts is home to the Washington National Opera and National Symphony Orchestra, 2.2.2 Theology Slave rebellions Congress passed the Organic Act of 1871 which repealed the individual charters of the cities of Washington and Georgetown and created a new territorial government for the whole District of Columbia. President Grant appointed Alexander Robey Shepherd to the position of governor in 1873 Shepherd authorized large-scale projects that greatly modernized the City of Washington but ultimately bankrupted the District government in 1874 Congress replaced the territorial government with an appointed three-member Board of Commissioners. On the U.S side the war was fought by regiments of regulars and various regiments battalions and companies of volunteers from the different states of the Union as well as Americans and some Mexicans in the California and New Mexico territories On the West Coast the US Navy fielded a battalion of sailors in an attempt to recapture Los Angeles. Although the US Army and Navy were not large at the outbreak of the war the officers were generally well trained and the numbers of enlisted men fairly large compared to Mexico's At the beginning of the war the US Army had eight regiments of infantry (three battalions each) four artillery regiments and three mounted regiments (two dragoons one of mounted rifles) These regiments were supplemented by 10 new regiments (nine of infantry and one of cavalry) raised for one year of service by the act of Congress from February 11 1847. . . 6.3 Foreign affairs Main articles: Quebec Act and Intolerable Acts Cartoon of Lincoln and Johnson attempting to stitch up the broken Union. . Germany: the official capital Berlin is home to the parliament and the highest bodies of the executive branch (consisting of the ceremonial presidency and effective chancellery) Various ministries are located in the former West German capital of Bonn which now has the title "Federal City" the Federal Constitutional Court has its seat in Karlsruhe which as a consequence is sometimes called Germany's "judicial capital"; none of Germany's highest judicial organs are located in Berlin Various German government agencies are located in other parts of Germany.

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