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Northern philanthropists continued to support black education in the 20th century even as tensions rose within the black community exemplified by Booker T Washington and W E B Du Bois as to the proper emphasis between industrial and classical academic education at the college level an example of a major donor to Hampton Institute and Tuskegee was George Eastman who also helped fund health programs at colleges and in communities. Collaborating with Washington in the early decades of the 20th century philanthropist Julius Rosenwald provided matching funds for community efforts to build rural schools for black children He insisted on white and black cooperation in the effort wanting to ensure that white-controlled school boards made a commitment to maintain the schools By the 1930s local parents had helped raise funds (sometimes donating labor and land) to create over 5,000 rural schools in the South Other philanthropists such as Henry H Rogers and Andrew Carnegie each of whom had arisen from modest roots to become wealthy used matching fund grants to stimulate local development of libraries and schools, President James Madison members of his government and the military fled the city in the wake of the British victory at the Battle of Bladensburg They eventually found refuge for the night in Brookeville a small town in Montgomery County Maryland which is known today as the "United States' Capital for a Day." President Madison spent the night in the house of Caleb Bentley a Quaker who lived and worked in Brookeville Bentley's house known today as the Madison House still stands in Brookeville, Washington D.C. Business Directory. Main articles: Dred Scott v Sandford and Freedom suits, McClurg McHenry Rush and Williamson were physicians, Washington D.C. Business Directory The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority has gradually phased out the mobile lounge system for inter-terminal passenger movements in favor of the AeroTrain an underground people mover which currently operates to all of the concourses except concourse D with passenger tunnels remaining to concourses a and B Plane mates remain in use to disembark international passengers and carry them to the International Arrivals Building as well as to transport passengers to and from aircraft on the hard stands (i.e those parked remotely on the apron without access to jet bridges). 1860 presidential election First Battle of Tabasco. . Santa Anna's last campaign Main article: Mexican Cession. Consolidated 1871 A month before the end of the war Polk was criticized in a United States House of Representatives amendment to a bill praising Major General Zachary Taylor for "a war unnecessarily and unconstitutionally begun by the President of the United States." This criticism in which Congressman Abraham Lincoln played an important role with his Spot Resolutions followed congressional scrutiny of the war's beginnings including factual challenges to claims made by President Polk the vote followed party lines with all Whigs supporting the amendment Lincoln's attack won lukewarm support from fellow Whigs in Illinois but was harshly counter-attacked by Democrats who rallied pro-war sentiments in Illinois; Lincoln's Spot resolutions haunted his future campaigns in the heavily Democratic state of Illinois and were cited by enemies well into his presidency, Officer 4.4 Domestic slave trade and forced migration.

Main article: 1864 United States presidential election 2.1 Constitution of the United States! . Washington D.C. Business Directory 10 Impact of the war in Mexico The term Founding Fathers is sometimes used to refer to the Signers of the embossed version of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Signers is not be confused with the term Framers; the Framers are defined by the National Archives as those 55 individuals who were appointed to be delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention and took part in drafting the proposed Constitution of the United States Of the 55 Framers only 39 were signers of the Constitution. Two further groupings of Founding Fathers include: 1) those who signed the Continental Association a trade ban and one of the colonists' first collective volleys protesting British control and the Intolerable Acts in 1774, or 2) those who signed the Articles of Confederation the first U.S constitutional document. Washington Gas is the city's natural gas utility and serves over one million customers in the District and its suburbs Incorporated by Congress in 1848 the company installed the city's first gas lights in the Capitol the White House and along Pennsylvania Avenue. . .