. The Eisenhower Executive Office Building once the world's largest office building houses the Executive Office of the President of the United States. Historian Bernard Bailyn argues that the evangelicalism of the era challenged traditional notions of natural hierarchy by preaching that the Bible teaches that all men are equal so that the true value of a man lies in his moral behavior not in his class. Kidd argues that religious disestablishment belief in God as the source of human rights and shared convictions about sin virtue and divine providence worked together to unite rationalists and evangelicals and thus encouraged a large proportion of Americans to fight for independence from the Empire Bailyn on the other hand denies that religion played such a critical role. Alan Heimert argues that New Light anti-authoritarianism was essential to furthering democracy in colonial American society and set the stage for a confrontation with British monarchical and aristocratic rule. ; Its trans-state location reflected a compromise between the Southern and Northern states Virginia lobbied for the selection an idea opposed by New York and Pennsylvania both of which had previously housed the nation's capital Maryland whose State House was older than that of Virginia and like Virginia a slave state was chosen as a compromise at Washington's request the City of Alexandria was included in the District though with the provision that no federal buildings could be built there the new capital district was at about the center of the country, To help regulate the relationship between slave and owner including legal support for keeping the slave as property states established slave codes most based on laws existing since the colonial era the code for the District of Columbia defined a slave as "a human being who is by law deprived of his or her liberty for life and is the property of another".
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, Washington on horseback in the middle of a battle scene with other soldiers. Judiciary Square General Hospital 7.1 1860 presidential election, Kearny and his troops encountered no Mexican forces when they arrived on August 15 Kearny and his force entered Santa Fe and claimed the New Mexico Territory for the United States without a shot being fired Kearny declared himself the military governor of the New Mexico Territory on August 18 and established a civilian government American officers with a background in law drew up a temporary legal system for the territory called the Kearny Code.
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