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. Emanuel Leutze's famous 1851 depiction of Washington Crossing the Delaware! . . . President George Washington Gilbert Stuart (1795), 1.4 Planned development 7 Bibliography Seven were major land speculators: Blount Dayton Fitzsimmons Gorham Robert Morris Washington and Wilson, 1860 75,080 45.3% In Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville noted that "the colonies in which there were no slaves became more populous and more rich than those in which slavery flourished." Economists Peter H Lindert and Jeffrey G Williamson in a pair of articles published in 2012 and 2013 found that despite the American South initially having per capita income roughly double that of the North in 1774 incomes in the South had declined 27% by 1800 and continued to decline over the next four decades while the economies in New England and the Mid-Atlantic states vastly expanded by 1840 per capita income in the South was well behind the Northeast and the national average (Note: This is also true of contemporary incomes in the United States in the early 21st century.). Slaves and slavery are mentioned only indirectly in the 1787 Constitution for example Article 1 Section 2 Clause 3 prescribes that "three fifths of all other Persons" are to be counted for the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives and direct taxes Additionally in Article 4 Section 2 Clause 3 slaves are referred to as "persons held in service or labor" the Founding Fathers however did make important efforts to contain slavery Many Northern states had adopted legislation to end or significantly reduce slavery during and after the American Revolution in 1782 Virginia passed a manumission law that allowed slave owners to free their slaves by will or deed. As a result thousands of slaves were manumitted in Virginia. Thomas Jefferson in 1784 proposed to ban slavery in all the Western Territories which failed to pass Congress by one vote. Partially following Jefferson's plan Congress did ban slavery in the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 for lands north of the Ohio River, Clockwise from top right: United States Capitol Washington Monument the White House Smithsonian Institution Building Lincoln Memorial and Washington National Cathedral! .

4 Independence and Union, Part of the Politics series on, Wellington became the capital city of New Zealand in 1865 it lies at the southern tip of the North Island of New Zealand the smaller of New Zealand's two main islands (which subsequently became the more populous island,) immediately across Cook Strait from the South Island the previous capital Auckland lies much further north in the North Island; the move followed a long argument for a more central location for parliament. George Washington presiding over the signing of the United States Constitution, Some examples of the second situation (compromise locations) include:, 8.3 Apologies 4 Agitation against slavery Further information: France in the American Revolutionary War and Spain in the American Revolutionary War. Provisions 2.2 California Sunset over the Potomac near Mount Vernon. Washington D.C. Business Directory Contents 2.3.2 Concourses C and D Star of the West One way to categorize lawmakers according to political scientist Richard Fenno is by their general motivation:.