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Demographics Clockwise from top right: United States Capitol Washington Monument the White House Smithsonian Institution Building Lincoln Memorial and Washington National Cathedral. The Virginia Regiment was reconstituted in August 1755 and Dinwiddie appointed Washington its commander again with the colonial rank of colonel Washington clashed over seniority almost immediately this time with John Dagworthy another captain of superior royal rank who commanded a detachment of Marylanders at the regiment's headquarters in Fort Cumberland. Washington impatient for an offensive against Fort Duquesne was convinced Braddock would have granted him a royal commission and pressed his case in February 1756 with Braddock's successor William Shirley and again in January 1757 with Shirley's successor Lord Loudoun Shirley ruled in Washington's favor only in the matter of Dagworthy; Loudoun humiliated Washington refused him a royal commission and agreed only to relieve him of the responsibility of manning Fort Cumberland. ! American Slavery As it Is Uncle Tom's Cabin Terminals The Constitution enumerates the powers of Congress in detail in addition other congressional powers have been granted or confirmed by constitutional amendments the Thirteenth (1865) Fourteenth (1868) and Fifteenth Amendments (1870) gave Congress authority to enact legislation to enforce rights of African Americans including voting rights due process and equal protection under the law. Generally militia forces are controlled by state governments not Congress. Anti-slavery elements fought for the exclusion of slavery from any territory absorbed by the U.S in 1847 the House of Representatives passed the Wilmot Proviso stipulating that none of the territory acquired should be open to slavery the Senate avoided the issue and a late attempt to add it to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was defeated.[by whom?], Congress passed the Organic Act of 1871 which repealed the individual charters of the cities of Washington and Georgetown and created a new territorial government for the whole District of Columbia. President Grant appointed Alexander Robey Shepherd to the position of governor in 1873 Shepherd authorized large-scale projects that greatly modernized the City of Washington but ultimately bankrupted the District government in 1874 Congress replaced the territorial government with an appointed three-member Board of Commissioners.

Maryland 103,036 105,635 111,502 107,398 102,994 89,737 90,368 87,189 Various tribes of the Algonquian-speaking Piscataway people (also known as the Conoy) inhabited the lands around the Potomac River when Europeans first visited the area in the early 17th century One group known as the Nacotchtank (also called the Nacostines by Catholic missionaries) maintained settlements around the Anacostia River within the present-day District of Columbia Conflicts with European colonists and neighboring tribes forced the relocation of the Piscataway people some of whom established a new settlement in 1699 near Point of Rocks Maryland! ! Implementation Map showing the five geological provinces through which the Potomac River flows. Initial skirmish at the Nueces Strip James Hopkinson's Plantation Planting sweet potatoes ca 1862/63, 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.