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. Pay and benefits England: Robert Morris Button Gwinnett Constitutional responsibility for the oversight of Washington D.C. the federal district and national capital and the U.S territories of Guam American Samoa Puerto Rico the U.S Virgin Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands rests with Congress the republican form of government in territories is devolved by Congressional statute to the respective territories including direct election of governors the D.C mayor and locally elective territorial legislatures. American advocates of independence were commonly lampooned in Great Britain for what was termed their hypocritical calls for freedom at the same time that many of their leaders were planters who held hundreds of slaves Samuel Johnson snapped "how is it we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of the Negroes?" Benjamin Franklin countered by criticizing the British self-congratulation about "the freeing of one Negro" named Somersett while they continued to permit the overall slave trade. Phyllis Wheatley was a black poet who popularized the image of Columbia to represent America She came to public attention when her Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral appeared in 1773, Show map of North America, Main article: Powers of the United States Congress! The abolitionists realizing that the total elimination of slavery was as an immediate goal unrealistic had worked to prevent expansion of slavery into the new states formed out of the Western territories the Missouri Compromise the Compromise of 1850 and the Bleeding Kansas crisis dealt with whether new states would be slave or free or how that was to be decided Both sides were anxious about effects of these decisions on the balance of power in the Senate, Crittenden Compromise 5.2 Disputed capitals 11 External links! . Washington soon was counted among the political and social elite in Virginia From 1768 to 1775 he invited some 2,000 guests to his Mount Vernon estate mostly those whom he considered "people of rank" He became more politically active in 1769 presenting legislation in the Virginia Assembly to establish an embargo on goods from Great Britain! .

. . Blue Ridge Blueberry Washington the farmer is shown standing on his plantation talking to an overseer as children play and slaves work Work is by Junius Stearns, Shrubs of the Potomac River Basin Main articles: Navigation Acts Dominion of New England King Philip's War and War of the Austrian Succession!