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4.2 Annual traffic Washington D.C. Business Directory, Opponents of D.C voting rights propose that the Founding Fathers never intended for District residents to have a vote in Congress since the Constitution makes clear that representation must come from the states Those opposed to making D.C a state claim that such a move would destroy the notion of a separate national capital and that statehood would unfairly grant Senate representation to a single city particularly one certain to elect Democratic representatives. William Hooper North Carolina 2 Yes Yes In June 1775 Congress ordered an invasion of Canada led by Benedict Arnold who despite Washington's strong objection drew volunteers from the latter's force during the Siege of Boston the move on Quebec failed the American forces were reduced to less than half and retreated.

The south bank of the Potomac River forms the District's border with Virginia and has two major tributaries: the Anacostia River and Rock Creek. Tiber Creek a natural watercourse that once passed through the National Mall was fully enclosed underground during the 1870s the creek also formed a portion of the now-filled Washington City Canal which allowed passage through the city to the Anacostia River from 1815 until the 1850s the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal starts in Georgetown and was used during the 19th century to bypass the Little Falls of the Potomac River located at the northwest edge of Washington at the Atlantic Seaboard fall line, Once the Potomac drops from the Piedmont to the Coastal Plain at the Atlantic Seaboard fall line at Little Falls tides further influence the river as it passes through Washington D.C and beyond Salinity in the Potomac River Estuary increases thereafter with distance downstream the estuary also widens reaching 11 statute miles (17 km) wide at its mouth between Point Lookout Maryland and Smith Point Virginia before flowing into the Chesapeake Bay. Another popular local daily is the Washington Times the city's second general interest broadsheet and also an influential paper in conservative political circles the alternative weekly Washington City Paper also has a substantial readership in the Washington area, Washington D.C. Business Directory High demand and smuggling. Seminary General Hospital The US Treasury Building (built 1804) See also: District of Columbia home rule; List of mayors of Washington D.C.; and List of District of Columbia symbols. The many contemporary reports of slave treatment at Mount Vernon are varied and conflicting. Historian Kenneth Morgan (2000) maintains that Washington was frugal on spending for clothes and bedding for his slaves and only provided them with just enough food and that he maintained strict control over his slaves instructing his overseers to keep them working hard from dawn to dusk year round However historian Dorothy Twohig (2001) said: "Food clothing and housing seem to have been at least adequate". Washington faced growing debts involved with the costs of supporting slaves He held an "ingrained sense of racial superiority" over African Americans but harbored no ill feelings toward them. Maj Gen 10.2 American Indians Washington D.C during the American Civil War was the nerve-center of the Union war effort which rapidly turned it from a small city into a major capital with full civic infrastructure and strong defenses. . Johnson and Witherspoon were college presidents Flag Official seal of Washington D.C The freedmen fought for Britain throughout the Atlantic campaign including the attack on Washington D.C and the Louisiana Campaign Seven hundred of these ex-marines were granted land (they reportedly organised themselves in villages along the lines of their military companies).[citation needed] Many other freed American slaves were recruited directly into existing West Indian regiments or newly created British Army units[citation needed] the British later resettled a few thousand freed slaves at Nova Scotia as they had for freedmen after the Revolution. Some of the earlier freedmen had migrated to Sierra Leone in the late 18th century when it was established as a British colony Descendants have established the Black Loyalist Heritage Museum and website!