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4.1.3 Officer Fort Sumter's commander Major Robert Anderson sent a request for provisions to Washington and the execution of Lincoln's order to meet that request was seen by the secessionists as an act of war On April 12 1861 Confederate forces fired on Union troops at Fort Sumter and began the fight Historian Allan Nevins argued that the newly inaugurated Lincoln made three miscalculations: underestimating the gravity of the crisis exaggerating the strength of Unionist sentiment in the South and not realizing the Southern Unionists were insisting there be no invasion.:5:29. The American ideology called "republicanism" was inspired by the Whig party in Great Britain which openly criticized the corruption within the British government. Americans were increasingly embracing republican values seeing Britain as corrupt and hostile to American interests the colonists associated political corruption with luxury and inherited aristocracy which they condemned; On November 13 2007 the Potomac Conservancy an environmental group issued the river a grade of "D-plus" citing high levels of pollution and the reports of "intersex" fish. Since then the river has improved with a reduction in nutrient runoff return of fish populations and land protection along the river As a result the same group issued a grade of "B" for 2017 and 2018 in March 2019 the Potomac Riverkeeper Network launched a laboratory boat dubbed the "Sea Dog" which will be monitoring water quality in the Potomac and providing reports to the public on a weekly basis; in that same month the catching near Fletcher's Boat House of a Striped Bass estimated to weigh 35 lbs was seen as a further indicator of the continuing improvement in the health of the river! .

. Washington D.C. Business Directory, 11 External links FRANKLIN & ARMFIELD, Washington D.C. Business Directory William Paterson New Jersey 1 Yes. Named for George Washington An average of approximately 486 million US gallons (1,840,000 m3) of water is withdrawn daily from the Potomac in the Washington area for water supply providing about 78 percent of the region's total water usage this amount includes approximately 80 percent of the drinking water consumed by the region's estimated 6,100,000 residents; The scene of Washington on his deathbed with doctors and family surrounding, Census George Washington appears on contemporary U.S currency including the one-dollar bill and the quarter-dollar coin (the Washington quarter) Washington and Benjamin Franklin appeared on the nation's first postage stamps in 1847 Since that time Washington has appeared on many postage issues more than any other person, Andrew Adams Connecticut 1 Yes Directly south of the mall the Tidal Basin features rows of Japanese cherry blossom trees that originated as gifts from the nation of Japan the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial George Mason Memorial Jefferson Memorial Martin Luther King Jr Memorial and the District of Columbia War Memorial are around the Tidal Basin.