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Sunset over the Potomac near Mount Vernon Bleeding Kansas African-American history and culture scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr wrote:. .

The city's first motorized streetcars began service in 1888 and generated growth in areas of the District beyond the City of Washington's original boundaries Washington's urban plan was expanded throughout the District in the following decades. Georgetown's street grid and other administrative details were formally merged to those of the legal City of Washington in 1895. However the city had poor housing conditions and strained public works the District was the first city in the nation to undergo urban renewal projects as part of the "City Beautiful movement" in the early 1900s. The U.S Senate unanimously passed a similar resolution on June 18 2009 apologizing for the "fundamental injustice cruelty brutality and inhumanity of slavery" it also explicitly states that it cannot be used for restitution claims, Economy relatively weak governors without veto powers and with little appointing authority, In July 1845 Polk sent General Zachary Taylor to Texas and by October 3,500 Americans were on the Nueces River ready to take by force the disputed land Polk wanted to protect the border and also coveted for the U.S the continent clear to the Pacific Ocean At the same time Polk wrote to the American consul in the Mexican territory of Alta California disclaiming American ambitions in California but offering to support independence from Mexico or voluntary accession to the United States and warning that the United States would oppose a British or French takeover. ! . .