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2 Issues Robert Treat Paine Massachusetts 2 Yes Yes, Main article: Congressional Budget Office Meridian Hill Park in Columbia Heights Northwest Washington D.C! ! 7.8 Assassination 15.1 Guides bibliographies and collections The historians John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger wrote: The anti-literacy laws after 1832 contributed greatly to the problem of widespread illiteracy facing the freedmen and other African Americans after Emancipation and the Civil War 35 years later the problem of illiteracy and need for education was seen as one of the greatest challenges confronting these people as they sought to join the free enterprise system and support themselves during Reconstruction and thereafter. !

. Further information: Ancestry of George Washington and British America In response to two antislavery petitions Georgia and South Carolina objected and were threatening to "blow the trumpet of civil war" Washington and Congress responded with a series of pro-slavery measures: citizenship was denied to black immigrants; slaves were barred from serving in state militias; two more slave states (Kentucky in 1792 Tennessee in 1796) were admitted; and the continuation of slavery in federal territories south of the Ohio River was guaranteed On February 12 1793 Washington signed into law the Fugitive Slave Act which overrode state laws and courts allowing agents to cross state lines to capture and return escaped slaves. Many in the north decried the law believing the act allowed bounty hunting and the kidnappings of blacks the Slave Trade Act of 1794 limiting American involvement in the Atlantic slave trade was also enacted. . . Main article: Health of Abraham Lincoln, Union soldiers manning the Lower Battery at the north end of Chain Bridge in 1862, Prohibiting international trade. The Potomac River in Washington D.C with Arlington Memorial Bridge in the foreground and Rosslyn Arlington Virginia in the background Pennsylvania Yes Threats and violence against tax collectors however escalated into defiance against federal authority in 1794 and gave rise to the Whiskey Rebellion Washington issued a final proclamation on September 25 threatening the use of military force to no avail the federal army was not up to the task so Washington invoked the Militia Act of 1792 to summon state militias. Governors sent troops initially commanded by Washington who gave the command to Light-Horse Harry Lee to lead them into the rebellious districts They took 150 prisoners and the remaining rebels dispersed without further fighting Two of the prisoners were condemned to death but Washington exercised his Constitutional authority for the first time and granted them both pardons. France: the French constitution does not recognise any capital city in France by law Paris is the seat of both houses of Parliament (the National Assembly and the Senate) but their joint congresses are held at the Palace of Versailles in case of emergency the seat of the constitutional powers can be transferred to another town in order for the Houses of Parliament to sit in the same location as the President and Cabinet, Abraham Lincoln's and the Republicans' political platform in 1860 was to stop slavery's expansion Historian James McPherson says that in a famous speech in 1858 Lincoln said American republicanism can be purified by restricting the further expansion of slavery as the first step to putting it on the road to 'ultimate extinction.' Southerners took Lincoln at his word When he won the presidency they left the Union to escape the 'ultimate extinction' of slavery.". .