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Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States by Howard Chandler Christy 1940 Washington is the presiding officer standing at right 7.2 The Civil War Tourism is Washington's second-largest industry Approximately 18.9 million visitors contributed an estimated $4.8 billion to the local economy in 2012 the District also hosts nearly 200 foreign embassies and international organizations such as the World Bank the International Monetary Fund (IMF) the Organization of American States the Inter-American Development Bank and the Pan American Health Organization in 2008 the foreign diplomatic corps in Washington employed about 10,000 people and contributed an estimated $400 million annually to the local economy. John De Hart New Jersey 1 Yes, In August 1775 George III declared Americans to be traitors to the Crown if they took up arms against royal authority There were thousands of British and Hessian soldiers in American hands following their surrender at the Battles of Saratoga in October 1777 Lord Germain took a hard line but the British generals on American soil never held treason trials and treated captured American soldiers as prisoners of war the dilemma was that tens of thousands of Loyalists were under American control and American retaliation would have been easy the British built much of their strategy around using these Loyalists the British maltreated the prisoners whom they held resulting in more deaths to American prisoners of war than from combat operations. At the end of the war both sides released their surviving prisoners. Read's entry into the political arena was as a commissioner of the town of Charlestown Maryland The First Continental Congress met briefly in Philadelphia Pennsylvania in 1774 consisting of 56 delegates from all thirteen American colonies except Georgia Among them was George Washington who would soon be drawn out of military retirement to command the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War Also in attendance were Patrick Henry and John Adams who like all delegates were elected by their respective colonial assemblies Other delegates included Samuel Adams from Massachusetts John Dickinson from Pennsylvania and New York's John Jay This congress in addition to formulating appeals to the British crown established the Continental Association to administer boycott actions against Britain! ! From the Fairfax Stone the North Branch Potomac River flows 27 miles (43 km) to the man-made Jennings Randolph Lake an impoundment designed for flood control and emergency water supply Below the dam the North Branch cuts a serpentine path through the eastern Allegheny Mountains First it flows northeast by the communities of Bloomington Luke and Westernport in Maryland and then on by Keyser West Virginia to Cumberland Maryland at Cumberland the river turns southeast 103 miles (166 km) downstream from its source the North Branch is joined by the South Branch between Green Spring and South Branch Depot West Virginia from whence it flows past Hancock Maryland and turns southeast once more on its way toward Washington D.C and the Chesapeake Bay. . United States territory 1848 William L Yancey's "Alabama Platform" endorsed by the Alabama and the Georgia legislatures and by Democratic state conventions in Florida and Virginia called for no restrictions on slavery in the territories by the federal government or territorial governments before statehood opposition to any candidates supporting either the Wilmot Proviso or popular sovereignty and federal legislation to overrule Mexican anti-slavery laws.

John Hancock Massachusetts 2 Yes Yes Main article: Republicanism in the United States Born in Kentucky Lincoln grew up on the frontier in a poor family Self-educated he became a lawyer Whig Party leader Illinois state legislator and Congressman in 1849 he left government to resume his law practice but angered by the success of Democrats in opening the prairie lands to slavery reentered politics in 1854 He became a leader in the new Republican Party and gained national attention in 1858 for debating national Democratic leader Stephen A Douglas in the 1858 Illinois Senate campaign He then ran for President in 1860 sweeping the North and winning Southern pro-slavery elements took his win as proof that the North was rejecting the constitutional rights of Southern states to practice slavery They began the process of seceding from the union to secure its independence the new Confederate States of America fired on Fort Sumter one of the few U.S forts in the South Lincoln called up volunteers and militia to suppress the rebellion and restore the Union! The Lincoln Memorial receives approximately 6 million visits annually, In 1772 it became known that the Crown intended to pay fixed salaries to the governors and judges in Massachusetts which had been paid by local authorities This would reduce the influence of colonial representatives over their government Samuel Adams in Boston set about creating new Committees of Correspondence which linked Patriots in all 13 colonies and eventually provided the framework for a rebel government Virginia the largest colony set up its Committee of Correspondence in early 1773 on which Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson served. 11.1 General In London the Rockingham government came to power (July 1765) and Parliament debated whether to repeal the stamp tax or to send an army to enforce it Benjamin Franklin made the case for repeal explaining that the colonies had spent heavily in manpower money and blood in defense of the empire in a series of wars against the French and Indians and that further taxes to pay for those wars were unjust and might bring about a rebellion Parliament agreed and repealed the tax (February 21 1766) but insisted in the Declaratory Act of March 1766 that they retained full power to make laws for the colonies "in all cases whatsoever" the repeal nonetheless caused widespread celebrations in the colonies. Central concepts[show] Washington D.C. Business Directory 1 Family and childhood 9 See also. Lincoln in 1858 the year of his debates with Stephen Douglas over slavery, Texas annexation Lincoln's victory in the electoral college was decisive: Lincoln had 180 and his opponents added together had only 123.:4:312, 3 Modern capitals Highest elevation 409 ft (125 m); Slaves shipped to those regions that are part of the present-day United States .. the percentage of free black slave owners as the total number of free black heads of families was quite high in several states namely 43 percent in South Carolina 40 percent in Louisiana 26 percent in Mississippi 25 percent in Alabama and 20 percent in Georgia. Washington D.C. Business Directory, Painting of four men conferring in a ship's cabin entitled "The Peacemakers", See also: List of cases involving Abraham Lincoln!