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. The Library of Congress is one of the world's largest libraries with more than 167 million cataloged items, Supreme Court appointments In 1831 Nat Turner a literate slave who claimed to have spiritual visions organized a slave rebellion in Southampton County Virginia; it was sometimes called the Southampton Insurrection Turner and his followers killed nearly 60 white inhabitants mostly women and children Many of the men in the area were attending a religious event in North Carolina. Eventually Turner was captured with 17 other rebels who were subdued by the militia. Turner and his followers were hanged and Turner's body was flayed In a frenzy of fear and retaliation the militia killed more than 100 slaves who had not been involved in the rebellion Planters whipped hundreds of innocent slaves to ensure resistance was quelled. A portrait of Dred Scott Lincoln denounced the Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v Sandford as part of a conspiracy to extend slavery. 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; During the colonial period the status of slaves was affected by interpretations related to the status of foreigners in England England had no system of naturalizing immigrants to its island or its colonies Since persons of African origins were not English subjects by birth they were among those peoples considered foreigners and generally outside English common law the colonies struggled with how to classify people born to foreigners and subjects in 1656 Virginia Elizabeth Key Grinstead a mixed-race woman successfully gained her freedom and that of her son in a challenge to her status by making her case as the baptized Christian daughter of the free Englishman Thomas Key Her attorney was an English subject which may have helped her case (He was also the father of her mixed-race son and the couple married after Key was freed.), Further information: Presidency of Zachary Taylor About 600,000 slaves were transported to America or 5% of the 12 million slaves taken from Africa About 310,000 of these persons were imported into the Thirteen Colonies before 1776: 40% directly and the rest from the Caribbean. . Further information: Abolition of slavery timeline and List of notable opponents of slavery! .

In the final months of his presidency Washington was assailed by his political foes and a partisan press who accused him of being ambitious and greedy while he argued that he had taken no salary during the war and had risked his life in battle He regarded the press as a disuniting "diabolical" force of falsehoods sentiments that he expressed in his Farewell Address. At the end of his second term Washington retired for personal and political reasons dismayed with personal attacks and to ensure that a truly contested presidential election could be held He did not feel bound to a two-term limit but his retirement set a significant precedent Washington is often credited with setting the principal of a two-term presidency but it was Thomas Jefferson who first refused to run for a third term on political grounds, Main article: Culture of Washington D.C, Interpol: Lyon Born in Kentucky Lincoln grew up on the frontier in a poor family Self-educated he became a lawyer Whig Party leader Illinois state legislator and Congressman in 1849 he left government to resume his law practice but angered by the success of Democrats in opening the prairie lands to slavery reentered politics in 1854 He became a leader in the new Republican Party and gained national attention in 1858 for debating national Democratic leader Stephen A Douglas in the 1858 Illinois Senate campaign He then ran for President in 1860 sweeping the North and winning Southern pro-slavery elements took his win as proof that the North was rejecting the constitutional rights of Southern states to practice slavery They began the process of seceding from the union to secure its independence the new Confederate States of America fired on Fort Sumter one of the few U.S forts in the South Lincoln called up volunteers and militia to suppress the rebellion and restore the Union. Map of land use in the watershed Benjamin Franklin an early advocate of colonial unity was a foundational figure in defining the U.S ethos and exemplified the emerging nation's ideals. . .