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Ostend Manifesto the American Civil War Lincoln's portrait appears on two denominations of United States currency the penny and the $5 bill His likeness also appears on many postage stamps and he has been memorialized in many town city and county names,:194 including the capital of Nebraska. While he is usually portrayed bearded he first grew a beard in 1860 at the suggestion of 11-year-old Grace Bedell. Choice of location 6.4 Sports Year Democratic Republican Middle aged clean shaven Lincoln from the hips up! Washington was a talented equestrian early in life He collected thoroughbreds at Mount Vernon and his two favorite horses were Blueskin and Nelson. Fellow Virginian Thomas Jefferson said that Washington was "the best horseman of his age and the most graceful figure that could be seen on horseback"; he also hunted foxes deer ducks and other game. He was an excellent dancer and attended the theater frequently He drank in moderation but was morally opposed to excessive drinking smoking tobacco gambling and profanity, In 1751 Washington made his only trip abroad when he accompanied Lawrence to Barbados hoping that the climate would cure his brother's tuberculosis. Washington contracted smallpox during that trip which immunized him but left his face slightly scarred. Lawrence died in 1752 and Washington leased Mount Vernon from his widow; he inherited it outright after her death in 1761.

A delegation including John Adams and Benjamin Franklin met British admiral Richard Howe on Staten Island in New York Harbor on September 11 in what became known as the Staten Island Peace Conference Howe demanded that the Americans retract the Declaration of Independence which they refused to do and negotiations ended the British then seized New York City and nearly captured Washington's army They made New York their main political and military base of operations holding it until November 1783 the city became the destination for Loyalist refugees and a focal point of Washington's intelligence network; . Famous 1851 painting by Emanuel Leutze depicting Washington standing in boat with his troops crossing the icy Delaware River with soldiers pushing away chunks of ice, Precipitation occurs throughout the year Mary Todd Lincoln wife of Abraham Lincoln age 28. . . President Ulysses S Grant who as a young army lieutenant had served in Mexico under General Taylor recalled in his Memoirs published in 1885 that:, Noah Haynes Swayne January 21 1862 January 24 1862 10.1 Notes Pennsylvania Yes Independence and Union Throughout the first half of the 19th century abolitionism a movement to end slavery grew in strength; most abolitionist societies and supporters were in the North They worked to raise awareness about the evils of slavery and to build support for abolition; Planned development Subsequent English governments continued in their efforts to tax certain goods passing acts regulating the trade of wool, hats and molasses the Molasses Act of 1733 in particular was egregious to the colonists as a significant part of colonial trade relied on the product the taxes severely damaged the New England economy and the taxes were rarely paid resulting in a surge of smuggling bribery and intimidation of customs officials. Colonial wars fought in America were often the source of considerable tension the British captured the fortress of Louisbourg during the War of the Austrian Succession but then ceded it back to France in 1748 New England colonists resented their losses of lives as well as the effort and expenditure involved in subduing the fortress only to have it returned to their erstwhile enemy, The Protestant Scottish highlanders who settled what is now Darien Georgia added a moral anti-slavery argument which became increasingly rare in the South in their 1739 "Petition of the Inhabitants of New Inverness" by 1750 Georgia authorized slavery in the colony because it had been unable to secure enough indentured servants as laborers as economic conditions in England began to improve in the first half of the 18th century workers had no reason to leave especially to face the risks in the colonies, The First Continental Congress was a gathering of representatives from twelve of the thirteen British Colonies in North America. On July 4 1776 the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence referring to the new nation as the "United States of America" the Articles of Confederation in 1781 created the Congress of the Confederation a unicameral body with equal representation among the states in which each state had a veto over most decisions Congress had executive but not legislative authority and the federal judiciary was confined to admiralty and lacked authority to collect taxes regulate commerce or enforce laws! !