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Main article: Battle of Long Island 2.1 French and Indian War 6.1 Fish From the Mexican Cession the New Mexico Territory received most of the present-day state of Arizona most of the western part of the present-day state of New Mexico and the southern tip of present-day Nevada (south of the 37th parallel) the territory also received most of present-day eastern New Mexico a portion of present-day Colorado (east of the crest of the Rocky Mountains west of the 103rd meridian and south of the 38th parallel); all of this land had been claimed by Texas. . There are 1,500 miles (2,400 km) of streets parkways and avenues in the District. Due to the freeway revolts of the 1960s much of the proposed interstate highway system through the middle of Washington was never built Interstate 95 (I-95) the nation's major east coast highway therefore bends around the District to form the eastern portion of the Capital Beltway a portion of the proposed highway funding was directed to the region's public transportation infrastructure instead the interstate highways that continue into Washington including I-66 and I-395 both terminate shortly after entering the city; Main articles: Commemoration of the American Revolution and United States Bicentennial! 1950 802,178 21.0% Many slaves used the very disruption of war to escape their plantations and fade into cities or woods for instance in South Carolina nearly 25,000 slaves (30% of the total enslaved population) fled migrated or died during the war.[further explanation needed] Throughout the South losses of slaves were high with many due to escapes. Slaves also escaped throughout New England and the mid-Atlantic joining the British who had occupied New York, Washington wrote Alexander Hamilton on July 10: "I almost despair of seeing a favorable issue to the proceedings of our convention and do therefore repent having had any agency in the business." Nevertheless he lent his prestige to the goodwill and work of the other delegates He unsuccessfully lobbied many to support ratification of the Constitution such as anti-federalist Patrick Henry to whom he said "the adoption of it under the present circumstances of the Union is in my opinion desirable" declaring that the alternative would be anarchy. Washington and Madison then spent four days at Mount Vernon evaluating the transition of the new government. Lincoln's assassination, Finances Washington has had a significant African American population since the city's foundation. African American residents composed about 30% of the District's total population between 1800 and 1940 the black population reached a peak of 70% by 1970 but has since steadily declined due to many African Americans moving to the surrounding suburbs Partly as a result of gentrification there was a 31.4% increase in the non-Hispanic white population and an 11.5% decrease in the black population between 2000 and 2010, General Clinton sent Benedict Arnold to Virginia now a British Brigadier General with 1,700 troops to capture Portsmouth and to spread terror from there; Washington responded by sending Lafayette south to counter Arnold's efforts. Washington initially hoped to bring the fight to New York drawing off British forces from Virginia and ending the war there but Rochambeau advised Grasse that Cornwallis in Virginia was the better target Grasse's fleet arrived off the Virginia coast and Washington saw the advantage He made a feint towards Clinton in New York then headed south to Virginia. 1960 763,956 -4.8% A portrait of Dred Scott Lincoln denounced the Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v Sandford as part of a conspiracy to extend slavery. Washington as Farmer at Mount Vernon Washington D.C is overwhelmingly Democratic having voted for the Democratic candidate solidly since 1964 Each Republican candidate was voted down in favor of the Democratic candidate by a margin of at least 56 percentage points each time; the closest albeit very large margin between the two parties in a presidential election was in 1972 when Richard Nixon secured 21.6 percent of the vote to George McGovern's 78.1 percent Since then the Republican candidate has never received more than 20 percent of the vote!

A large crowd in front of a large building with many pillars, King's College (now Columbia): John Jay Alexander Hamilton Gouverneur Morris Robert R Livingston and Egbert Benson, Canoers at Hanging Rocks on the South Branch in the 1890s. . The river forms part of the borders between Maryland and Washington D.C on the left descending bank and West Virginia and Virginia on the river's right descending bank the majority of the lower Potomac River is part of Maryland Exceptions include a small tidal portion within the District of Columbia and the border with Virginia being delineated from "point to point" (thus various bays and shoreline indentations lie in Virginia) Except for a small portion of its headwaters in West Virginia the North Branch Potomac River is considered part of Maryland to the low water mark on the opposite bank the South Branch Potomac River lies completely within the state of West Virginia except for its headwaters which lie in Virginia, Historians agree that it is impossible to predict exactly how Reconstruction would have proceeded had Lincoln lived Biographers James G Randall and Richard Current according to David Lincove argue that:, Main article: Battle of Long Island. . Contents The era of jumbo jets began on January 15 1970 when First Lady Pat Nixon christened a Pan Am Boeing 747 at Dulles in the presence of Pan Am chairman Najeeb Halaby. Rather than a traditional champagne bottle red white and blue water was sprayed on the aircraft. Pan Am's first Boeing 747 flight was from New York JFK to London Heathrow Airport, This section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed, Washington on his Deathbed South Branch headwaters and course. Washington D.C. Business Directory Washington D.C. Business Directory Myanmar (Burma): Naypyidaw was designated the national capital in 2005 the same year it was founded but most government offices and embassies are still located in Yangon (Rangoon)! .