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. 9.2 Social context 1998 66.2% 92,504 30.2% 42,280 Union defenses along the Potomac near Washington DC Elsewhere in the Americas 1.1%. 10 Infrastructure 4.1.2 Power 1870 0 4,880,009 4,880,009 100% 38,558,371 13% Whig Senator Thomas Corwin of Ohio gave a long speech indicting presidential war in 1847. Whig leader Robert Toombs of Georgia declared: "This war is nondescript . We charge the President with usurping the war-making power . with seizing a country . which had been for centuries and was then in the possession of the Mexicans . Let us put a check upon this lust of dominion We had territory enough Heaven knew. .

7 Capital as symbol Washington played a central role before and during the American Revolution His disdain for the British military had begun when he was abashedly passed over for promotion into the Regular Army He was opposed to the continuing taxes imposed by the British Parliament on the Colonies without proper representation. He and other colonists were also angered by the Royal Proclamation of 1763 which banned American settlement west of the Allegheny Mountains and protected the British fur trade, Historians typically begin their histories of the American Revolution with the British coalition victory in the Seven Years' War in 1763 the North American theater of the Seven Years' War is commonly known as the French and Indian War in the United States; it removed France as a major player in North American affairs and led to the territory of New France being ceded to Great Britain Lawrence Henry Gipson writes:. . Washington D.C. Business Directory, The British sought out the United States Treasury in hopes of finding money or items of worth but they found only old records. They burned the United States Treasury and other public buildings the United States Department of War building was also burned However the War and State Department files had been removed so the books and records had been saved; the only records of the War Department lost were recommendations of appointments for the Army and letters received from seven years earlier the First U.S Patent Office Building was saved by the efforts of William Thornton the former Architect of the Capitol and then the Superintendent of Patents who gained British cooperation to preserve it.[A] "When the smoke cleared from the dreadful attack the Patent Office was the only Government building . left untouched" in Washington, Unassigned District of Columbia Colored. . . . Slaves on a South Carolina plantation (The Old Plantation c 1790) 1986 61.4% 79,142 32.8% 42,354 Although Virginia Maryland and Delaware were slave states the latter two already had a high proportion of free blacks by the outbreak of war Following the Revolution the three legislatures made manumission easier allowed by deed or will Quaker and Methodist ministers particularly urged slaveholders to free their slaves the number and proportion of freed slaves in these states rose dramatically until 1810 More than half of the number of free blacks in the United States were concentrated in the Upper South the proportion of free blacks among the black population in the Upper South rose from less than one percent in 1792 to more than 10 percent by 1810 in Delaware nearly 75 percent of blacks were free by 1810; The National Archives houses thousands of documents important to American history including the Declaration of Independence the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Located in three buildings on Capitol Hill the Library of Congress is the largest library complex in the world with a collection of over 147 million books manuscripts and other materials the United States Supreme Court Building was completed in 1935; before then the court held sessions in the Old Senate Chamber of the Capitol, 6 Intergovernmental organizations See also, Abolition of slavery by state action during the Civil War.