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! 7 Grand Review of the Armies, ZIP Codes Other important legislation involved two measures to raise revenues for the Federal government: tariffs (a policy with long precedent) and a Federal income tax in 1861 Lincoln signed the second and third Morrill Tariffs following the first enacted by Buchanan Also in 1861 Lincoln signed the Revenue Act of 1861 creating the first U.S income tax.:424 This created a flat tax of 3 percent on incomes above $800 ($22,300 in current dollar terms) the Revenue Act of 1862 adopted rates that increased with income.:111, Washington D.C. Business Directory Further information: American Revolution American Revolutionary War and George Washington in the American Revolution. .

. 8 Further reading The revolution could divide families such as William Franklin son of Benjamin Franklin and royal governor of the Province of New Jersey who remained loyal to the Crown throughout the war He and his father never spoke again. Recent immigrants who had not been fully Americanized were also inclined to support the King such as Flora MacDonald who was a Scottish settler in the back country. . Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of January 1 1863 was a powerful action that promised freedom for slaves in the Confederacy as soon as the Union armies reached them and authorized the enlistment of African Americans in the Union Army the Emancipation Proclamation did not free slaves in the Union-allied slave-holding states that bordered the Confederacy Since the Confederate States did not recognize the authority of President Lincoln and the proclamation did not apply in the border states at first the proclamation freed only those slaves who had escaped behind Union lines the proclamation made the abolition of slavery an official war goal that was implemented as the Union took territory from the Confederacy According to the Census of 1860 this policy would free nearly four million slaves or over 12% of the total population of the United States; 7.3 Emancipation Proclamation John Jay New York 1 Yes 9 Impact of the war in the United States 7 Bibliography Washington D.C. Business Directory Washington had an estimated population of 702,455 as of July 2018, making it the 20th most populous city in the United States Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the city's daytime population to more than one million during the workweek. Washington's metropolitan area the country's sixth largest had a 2017 estimated population of 6.2 million residents.