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Medical care for slaves was limited in terms of the medical knowledge available to anyone it was generally provided by other slaves or by slaveholders' family members Many slaves possessed medical skills needed to tend to each other and used folk remedies brought from Africa They also developed new remedies based on American plants and herbs. .

Image of Lincoln being shot by Booth while sitting in a theater booth, The airport's terminal complex consists of a main terminal (which includes four of the original gates "Z" gates) and two parallel midfield terminal buildings: Concourses A/B and C/D the entire terminal complex has 123 gates and 16 hardstand locations from which passengers can board or disembark using the airport's plane mate vehicles. To prevent this Arlington held a referendum through which voters petitioned Congress and the state of Virginia to return the portion of the District of Columbia south of the Potomac River (Alexandria County) to Virginia On July 9 1846 Congress retroceded Alexandria County to Virginia after which the District's slave traders relocated to Alexandria.:292 the District's slave trade was outlawed in the Compromise of 1850 the penalty for bringing a slave into the District for sale was freedom for the slave. Southern senators and congressmen resisted banning slavery altogether in the District to avoid setting a precedent the practice remained legal in the District until after secession with the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act signed by Lincoln on April 16 1862 which established the annual observance of Emancipation Day, The city's first motorized streetcars began service in 1888 and generated growth in areas of the District beyond the City of Washington's original boundaries Washington's urban plan was expanded throughout the District in the following decades. Georgetown's street grid and other administrative details were formally merged to those of the legal City of Washington in 1895. However the city had poor housing conditions and strained public works the District was the first city in the nation to undergo urban renewal projects as part of the "City Beautiful movement" in the early 1900s.