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. . Reasons The U.S Congress approved the declaration of war on May 13 1846 after a few hours of debate with southern Democrats in strong support Sixty-seven Whigs voted against the war on a key slavery amendment, but on the final passage only 14 Whigs voted no, including Rep John Quincy Adams, England: Robert Morris Button Gwinnett 1860 75,080 45.3%. . Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 Washington D.C. Business Directory 60 years later in the early years of the Chesapeake Bay settlements colonial officials found it difficult to attract and retain laborers under the harsh frontier conditions and there was a high mortality rate. Most laborers came from Britain as indentured laborers signing contracts of indenture to pay with work for their passage their upkeep and their training usually on a farm the colonies had agricultural economies These indentured laborers were often young people who intended to become permanent residents in some cases convicted criminals were transported to the colonies as indentured laborers rather than being imprisoned the indentured laborers were not slaves but were required to work for four to seven years in Virginia to pay the cost of their passage and maintenance. Many Germans Scots-Irish and Irish came to the colonies in the 18th century settling in the backcountry of Pennsylvania and further south. .

. U.S occupation of Mexico City, John Adams concluded in 1818:, The signing of the Residence Act on July 16 1790 approved the creation of a capital district located along the Potomac River on the country's East Coast the U.S Constitution provided for a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of the U.S Congress and the District is therefore not a part of any U.S state the states of Maryland and Virginia each donated land to form the federal district which included the pre-existing settlements of Georgetown and Alexandria the City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital in 1846 Congress returned the land originally ceded by Virginia; in 1871 it created a single municipal government for the remaining portion of the District. In the United States increasingly divided by sectional rivalry the war was a partisan issue and an essential element in the origins of the American Civil War Most Whigs in the North and South opposed it; most Democrats supported it. Southern Democrats animated by a popular belief in Manifest Destiny supported it in hope of adding slave-owning territory to the South and avoiding being outnumbered by the faster-growing North John L O'Sullivan editor of the Democratic Review coined this phrase in its context stating that it must be "our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.". . Washington D.C began using the Potomac as its principal source of drinking water with the opening of the Washington Aqueduct in 1864 using a water intake constructed at Great Falls; Freedman General Hospital Congress is constantly changing and is constantly in flux in recent times the American south and west have gained House seats according to demographic changes recorded by the census and includes more minorities and women although both groups are still underrepresented. While power balances among the different parts of government continue to change the internal structure of Congress is important to understand along with its interactions with so-called intermediary institutions such as political parties civic associations interest groups and the mass media.