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11.5 Status of African Americans Monaco Singapore and the Vatican City as well as the territories of Hong Kong and Macau are city-states and thus do not contain any distinct capital city as a whole However in Singapore's case the main judiciary and legislative offices are located in the Downtown Core Similarly while Victoria was the capital of colonial Hong Kong the district of Central serves as the seat of government offices today, View of the United States Capitol from the United States Supreme Court building. This section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed (August 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this template message), Main articles: Sugar Act Currency Act Quartering Acts Stamp Act 1765 and Declaratory Act. Before the secession of Texas Mexico comprised almost 1,700,000 sq mi (4,400,000 km2) but by 1849 it was just under 800,000 square miles (2,100,000 km2) Another 30,000 square miles (78,000 km2) were sold to the U.S in the Gadsden Purchase of 1853 so the total reduction of Mexican territory was more than 55% or 900,000 square miles (2,300,000 km2).

1850 3,204,313 434,495 3,638,808 12% 23,191,876 16% The Blue Palace the official residence of Montenegro's president is in Cetinje although the executive and legislature are located in Podgorica The Constitution enumerates the powers of Congress in detail in addition other congressional powers have been granted or confirmed by constitutional amendments the Thirteenth (1865) Fourteenth (1868) and Fifteenth Amendments (1870) gave Congress authority to enact legislation to enforce rights of African Americans including voting rights due process and equal protection under the law. Generally militia forces are controlled by state governments not Congress. . They constituted less than 5% of the twelve million enslaved people brought from Africa to the Americas the great majority of enslaved Africans were transported to sugar colonies in the Caribbean and to Brazil as life expectancy was short their numbers had to be continually replenished Life expectancy was much higher in the U.S and the enslaved population was successful in reproduction the number of enslaved people in the U.S grew rapidly reaching 4 million by the 1860 Census From 1770 to 1860 the rate of natural growth of North American enslaved people was much greater than for the population of any nation in Europe and it was nearly twice as rapid as that of England.