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Dams on the Potomac River Map of the Potomac River and its environs circa 1862 by Robert Knox Sneden, Tallahassee Florida chosen as the midpoint between Pensacola and St Augustine Florida - then the two largest cities in Florida. To the Chesapeake Bay Washington D.C. Business Directory; On January 6 1759 Washington at age 26 married Martha Dandridge Custis the 28 year-old widow of wealthy plantation owner Daniel Parke Custis the marriage took place at Martha's estate; She was intelligent and gracious and experienced in managing a planter's estate and the couple created a happy marriage. They raised John Parke Custis (Jacky) and Martha Parke (Patsy) Custis children from her previous marriage and later their grandchildren Eleanor Parke Custis (Nelly) and George Washington Parke Custis (Washy) Washington's 1751 bout with smallpox is thought to have rendered him sterile though it is equally likely "Martha may have sustained injury during the birth of Patsy her final child making additional births impossible." They lamented the fact that they had no children together. They moved to Mount Vernon near Alexandria where he took up life as a planter of tobacco and wheat and emerged as a political figure; Gettysburg Address (1863) Three major types of issues were addressed by the Compromise of 1850: a variety of boundary issues the status of territory issues and the issue of slavery While capable of analytical distinction the boundary and territory issues were actually included in the overarching issue of slavery Pro-slavery and anti-slavery interests were each concerned with both the amount of land on which slavery was permitted and with the number of States in the slave or free camps Since Texas was a slave state not only the residents of that state but also both camps on a national scale had an interest in the size of Texas. Francis Dana Massachusetts 1 Yes Mexicans and Indians in the annexed territories faced a loss of civil and political rights even though the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo promised U.S citizenship to all Mexican citizens living in the territory of the Mexican Cession the U.S government withheld citizenship from Indians in the southwest until the 1930s although they were citizens under Mexican law, 15.4 Historiography In 1803 the Supreme Court established judicial review of federal legislation in Marbury v Madison holding however that Congress could not grant unconstitutional power to the Court itself the Constitution does not explicitly state that the courts may exercise judicial review; however the notion that courts could declare laws unconstitutional was envisioned by the founding fathers Alexander Hamilton for example mentioned and expounded upon the doctrine in Federalist No 78 Originalists on the Supreme Court have argued that if the constitution does not say something explicitly it is unconstitutional to infer what it should might or could have said. Judicial review means that the Supreme Court can nullify a congressional law it is a huge check by the courts on the legislative authority and limits congressional power substantially in 1857 for example the Supreme Court struck down provisions of a congressional act of 1820 in its Dred Scott decision. At the same time the Supreme Court can extend congressional power through its constitutional interpretations. . . Challenges in Mexico Peyton Randolph Virginia 1 Yes, The President's House in Philadelphia was Washington's residence from 1790 to 1797.

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