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. After Taylor died and was succeeded by Fillmore Douglas took the lead in passing Clay's compromise through Congress as five separate bills Under the compromise Texas surrendered its claims to present-day New Mexico and other states in return for federal assumption of Texas's public debt California was admitted as a free state while the remaining portions of the Mexican Cession were organized into New Mexico Territory and Utah Territory Under the concept of popular sovereignty the people of each territory would decide whether or not slavery would be permitted the compromise also included a more stringent Fugitive Slave Law and banned the slave trade in Washington D.C the issue of slavery in the territories would be re-opened by the Kansas-Nebraska Act but many historians argue that the Compromise of 1850 played a major role in postponing the American Civil War. . Main articles: Philadelphia Convention and United States Bill of Rights, 4.3 Declarations of war A deliberately planned city that was built expressly to house the seat of government superseding a capital city that was in an established population center There have been various reasons for this including overcrowding in that major metropolitan area and the desire to place the capital city in a location with a better climate (usually a less tropical one). . Washington D.C. Business Directory This 1846 lithograph by Nathaniel Currier was entitled the Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor; the phrase "Boston Tea Party" had not yet become standard, 6 Lincoln's assassination Illustration from History of American conspiracies- a record of treason insurrection rebellion and c. in the United States of America from 1760 to 1860 (1863). On July 9 1790 Congress passed the Residence Act which approved the creation of a national capital on the Potomac River the exact location was to be selected by President George Washington who signed the bill into law on July 16 Formed from land donated by the states of Maryland and Virginia the initial shape of the federal district was a square measuring 10 miles (16 km) on each side totaling 100 square miles (259 km2).[b], Popular sovereignty developed by Lewis Cass and Stephen Douglas as the position of the Democratic Party was to let each territory decide for itself whether to allow slavery, During the Jefferson administration Congress prohibited the importation of slaves effective 1808 although smuggling (illegal importing) via Spanish Florida was common.:7 Domestic slave trading however continued at a rapid pace driven by labor demands from the development of cotton plantations in the Deep South More than one million slaves were sold from the Upper South which had a surplus of labor and taken to the Deep South in a forced migration splitting up many families New communities of African-American culture were developed in the Deep South and the total slave population in the South eventually reached 4 million before liberation.

Top row: Chain Bridge (two views) and Pimmit Run Bridge; Bottom Row: Aqueduct Bridget {two views) and Georgetown Ferry. . Air traffic control tower viewed through a skylight in the main terminal 1976 81.6% 137,818 16.5% 27,873 Notable Civil War leaders from Washington D.C! .