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A statue of young Lincoln sitting on a stump holding a book open on his lap, Robert E Lee wrote in 1856: Because of the three-fifths compromise in the U.S Constitution in which slaves counted in the calculation of how many representatives a state had in Congress (though only three-fifths as much as a free person) the planter class had long held power in Congress out of proportion to the total number of free people in the US population as a whole. Wythe's first exposure to politics was as a member of Virginia's House of Burgesses Valletta Malta (1571). Main article: Constitutional Convention (United States) According to 2017 Census Bureau data the population of Washington D.C was 47.1% Black or African American 45.1% White (36.8% non-Hispanic White) 4.3% Asian 0.6% American Indian or Alaska Native and 0.1% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander Individuals from two or more races made up 2.7% of the population Hispanics of any race made up 11.0% of the District's population.

. The five component parts of the district operated their own governments at the lower level the three cities within the district (Georgetown the City of Washington and Alexandria) operated their own municipal governments each with a continuous history of mayors Robert Brent the first mayor of the City of Washington was appointed directly by Thomas Jefferson in 1802 after the city's organization that year. . . ; . Noah Haynes Swayne January 21 1862 January 24 1862 When detailed studies were issued by the Corps in the 1950s they met sustained opposition led by U.S Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas resulting in the plans' abandonment the only dam project that did get built was Jennings Randolph Lake on the North Branch the Corps built a supplementary water intake for the Washington Aqueduct at Little Falls in 1959. 15.5 Primary sources One of the contributing factors to loss of the war by Mexico was the inferiority of their weapons the Mexican army was using surplus British muskets (e.g Brown Bess) from the Napoleonic Wars period While at the beginning of the war the majority of American soldiers were still equipped with the very similar Springfield 1816 flintlock muskets more reliable caplock models gained large inroads within the rank and file as the conflict progressed Some US troops carried radically modern weapons that gave them a significant advantage over their Mexican counterparts such as the Springfield 1841 rifle of the Mississippi Rifles and the Colt Paterson revolver of the Texas Rangers in the later stages of the war the US Mounted Rifles were issued Colt Walker revolvers of which the US Army had ordered 1,000 in 1846 Most significantly throughout the war the superiority of the US artillery often carried the day While technologically Mexican and American artillery operated on the same plane US army training as well as the quality and reliability of their logistics gave US guns and cannoneers a significant edge.[citation needed], Emanuel Leutze's famous 1851 depiction of Washington Crossing the Delaware, On the morning of October 26 as Perry's fleet prepared to start the attack on the city the Mexican forces began firing at the American fleet the U.S bombing began to yield the square so that the fire continued until evening Before taking the square Perry decided to leave and return to the port of Frontera where he established a naval blockade to prevent supplies of food and military supplies from reaching the state capital.