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. Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States by Howard Chandler Christy (1940).

The British strategy in America now concentrated on a campaign in the southern states With fewer regular troops at their disposal the British commanders saw the "southern strategy" as a more viable plan as they perceived the south as strongly Loyalist with a large population of recent immigrants and large numbers of slaves who might be captured or run away to join the British. A 2017 study in the British Journal of Political Science argued that the British American colonies without slavery adopted better democratic institutions in order to attract migrant workers to their colonies, The John A Wilson Building houses the offices of the mayor of Washington and the Council of the District of Columbia. In 1832 Lincoln and partner Denton Offutt bought a general store on credit in New Salem Illinois. Although the economy was booming the business struggled and Lincoln eventually sold his share That March he entered politics running for the Illinois General Assembly advocating navigational improvements on the Sangamon River He could draw crowds as a raconteur but he lacked an education powerful friends and money and lost the election.:41. .