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Most northern states passed legislation for gradual abolition first freeing children born to slave mothers (and requiring them to serve lengthy indentures to their mother's masters often into their 20s as young adults) As a result of this gradualist approach New York did not fully free its last ex-slaves until 1827 Rhode Island had seven slaves still listed in the 1840 census Pennsylvania's last ex-slaves were freed in 1847 Connecticut's in 1848 and New Hampshire and New Jersey in 1865. Samuel Freeman Miller July 16 1862 July 16 1862 Countries whose capital is on the coast, Food and Agriculture Organization: Rome In Louisiana French colonists had established sugar cane plantations and exported sugar as the chief commodity crop After the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 Americans entered the state and joined the sugar cultivation Between 1810 and 1830 planters bought slaves from the North and the number of slaves increased from less than 10,000 to more than 42,000 Planters preferred young males who represented two-thirds of the slave purchases Dealing with sugar cane was even more physically demanding than growing cotton the largely young unmarried male slave force made the reliance on violence by the owners "especially savage"; The Washington Monument seen across the Tidal Basin during 2007's National Cherry Blossom Festival.

. . On November 6 Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States He was the first Republican president and his victory was entirely due to his support in the North and West; no ballots were cast for him in 10 of the 15 Southern slave states and he won only two of 996 counties in all the Southern states.:61 Lincoln received 1,866,452 votes or 39.8% of the total in a four-way race He won the free Northern states as well as California and Oregon.:350, Crispus Attucks was an iconic patriot; he was fatally shot by British soldiers in the Boston Massacre of 1770 and is thus considered the first American killed in the Revolution, Important thinkers[show] World War II further increased government activity adding to the number of federal employees in the capital; by 1950 the District's population reached its peak of 802,178 residents.