. Assassination Office Name Term The massacre of the Pequot resulted in the enslavement of some of the survivors by English colonists The delegates to the Convention anticipated a Washington presidency and left it to him to define the office once elected.[n] the state electors under the Constitution voted for the president on February 4 1789 and Washington suspected that most republicans had not voted for him the mandated March 4 date passed without a Congressional quorum to count the votes but a quorum was reached on April 5 the votes were tallied the next day and Congressional Secretary Charles Thomson was sent to Mount Vernon to tell Washington that he had been elected president Washington won the majority of every state's electoral votes; John Adams received the next highest number of votes and therefore became vice president. Washington had "anxious and painful sensations" about leaving the "domestic felicity" of Mount Vernon but he departed for New York City on April 23 to be inaugurated. West Point espionage Miniature of George Washington by Robert Field (1800) 5.3 First presidential election Further information: Atlantic Revolutions! Washington D.C. Business Directory Overview 1 Colonial America. . Slaves on J J Smith's cotton plantation near Beaufort South Carolina photographed by Timothy O'Sullivan standing before their quarters in 1862.
Richard Bassett Delaware 1 Yes Burning of the Gaspee, From the Mexican Cession the Utah Territory received present-day Utah most of present-day Nevada (everything north of the 37th parallel) a major part of present-day Colorado (everything west of the crest of the Rocky Mountains) and a small part of present-day Wyoming That included the newly founded colony at Salt Lake of Brigham Young the Utah Territory also received some land that had claimed by Texas; this land is now part of present-day Colorado that is east of the crest of the Rocky Mountains, 4 White House Anti-literacy. . 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, During the War of 1812 British Royal Navy commanders of the blockading fleet based at the Bermuda dockyard were instructed to offer freedom to defecting American slaves as the Crown had during the Revolutionary War Thousands of escaped slaves went over to the Crown with their families Men were recruited into the Corps of Colonial Marines on occupied Tangier Island in the Chesapeake Bay. . . Joseph Galloway Pennsylvania 1 Yes, Main articles: Commemoration of the American Revolution and United States Bicentennial, 2.8 Ownership of slaves and position on slavery. .
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