. The District was governed directly by the U.S Congress from the beginning Alexandria City and County were ceded back from the federal government to the commonwealth of Virginia in 1846 in a process known as retrocession anticipating the 1850 ban on slave trading (but not slavery) in the District.
Compromise of 1850 Washington D.C. Business Directory. Edward Biddle Pennsylvania 1 Yes Governing entities sometimes plan design and build new capital cities to house the seat of government of a polity or of a subdivision Deliberately planned and designed capitals include:.
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