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See also: District of Columbia home rule; List of mayors of Washington D.C.; and List of District of Columbia symbols, With the development of slave and free states after the American Revolution and far-flung commercial and military activities new situations arose in which slaves might be taken by masters into free states Most free states not only prohibited slavery but ruled that slaves brought and kept there illegally could be freed Such cases were sometimes known as transit cases, Once the abolition of slavery in the rebel states became a military objective Union armies advancing south liberated three million slaves Lincoln's comment on the signing of the Proclamation was: "I never in my life felt more certain that I was doing right than I do in signing this paper.":407 Lincoln continued earlier plans to set up colonies for the newly freed slaves He supported this in the Proclamation but the undertaking failed.:408. Higher education Washington D.C is a national center for the arts the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is home to the National Symphony Orchestra the Washington National Opera and the Washington Ballet the Kennedy Center Honors are awarded each year to those in the performing arts who have contributed greatly to the cultural life of the United States the historic Ford's Theatre site of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln continues to operate as a functioning performance space as well as a museum; . .

The L'Enfant Plan for Washington D.C. as revised by Andrew Ellicott in 1792, Lt Gen Middle aged clean shaven Lincoln from the hips up, Philippines: Presidential Decree No 940 issued on June 24 1976 designates the whole of National Capital Region (NCR) as the seat of government with the City of Manila as the capital. This is because the region has many national government institutions aside from Malacanang Palace and some agencies or institutions that are located within the capital city. 8 Concluding the Revolution On July 9 70 sailors and marines landed at Yerba Buena and raised the American flag Later that day in Sonoma the Bear Flag was lowered and the American flag was raised in its place, vte Organic Act of 1871, Washington D.C. Business Directory Historian Richard B Morris in 1973 identified the following seven figures as key Founding Fathers: John Adams Benjamin Franklin Alexander Hamilton John Jay Thomas Jefferson James Madison and George Washington. Jefferson Madison and Washington were slave owners Franklin Hamilton and Jay were leading opponents of slavery Adams Jefferson and Franklin were members of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence Hamilton Madison and Jay were authors of the Federalist Papers advocating ratification of the Constitution the constitutions drafted by Jay and Adams for their respective states of New York (1777) and Massachusetts (1780) were heavily relied upon when creating language for the U.S Constitution. Jay Adams and Franklin negotiated the Treaty of Paris (1783) that would end the American Revolutionary War. Washington was commander-in-chief of the Continental Army and was president of the Constitutional Convention All held additional important roles in the early government of the United States with Washington Adams Jefferson and Madison serving as president Jay was the nation's first chief justice Hamilton was the first secretary of the treasury and Franklin was America's most senior diplomat and later the governmental leader of Pennsylvania.