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Other important personalities of the Civil War born in the immediate Washington area included Confederate Senator Thomas Jenkins Semmes Union general John Milton Brannan John Rodgers Meigs (whose death sparked a significant controversy throughout the North) and Confederate brigade commander Richard Hanson Weightman, Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions As specified by Article One of the United States Constitution in fact as one of the enumerated powers of section 8 Congress assumed direct administrative control of the federal district upon its creation by the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801 There was no district governor or executive body the U.S House created a permanent Committee on the District of Columbia in January of 1808 and the U.S Senate established its counterpart in December 1816 These committees remained active until 1946. Thus the U.S Congress managed the detailed day-to-day governmental needs of the district through Acts of Congress -- an act authorizing the purchase of fire engines and construction of a firehouse for instance, or an act to commission three new city streets and closing two others in Georgetown. Census The mayor and council set local taxes and a budget which must be approved by Congress the Government Accountability Office and other analysts have estimated that the city's high percentage of tax-exempt property and the Congressional prohibition of commuter taxes create a structural deficit in the District's local budget of anywhere between $470 million and over $1 billion per year Congress typically provides additional grants for federal programs such as Medicaid and the operation of the local justice system; however analysts claim that the payments do not fully resolve the imbalance. Patriots A 2017 study in the British Journal of Political Science argued that the British American colonies without slavery adopted better democratic institutions in order to attract migrant workers to their colonies! In 1831 Nat Turner a literate slave who claimed to have spiritual visions organized a slave rebellion in Southampton County Virginia; it was sometimes called the Southampton Insurrection Turner and his followers killed nearly 60 white inhabitants mostly women and children Many of the men in the area were attending a religious event in North Carolina. Eventually Turner was captured with 17 other rebels who were subdued by the militia. Turner and his followers were hanged and Turner's body was flayed In a frenzy of fear and retaliation the militia killed more than 100 slaves who had not been involved in the rebellion Planters whipped hundreds of innocent slaves to ensure resistance was quelled, 2 Social background and commonalities Main article: Joint session of the United States Congress, Alexander Hamilton New York 1 Yes Gandhinagar Gujarat India (1960) Main article: Native Americans in the United States.

. . . Caesar Rodney Delaware 2 Yes Yes A delegation including John Adams and Benjamin Franklin met British admiral Richard Howe on Staten Island in New York Harbor on September 11 in what became known as the Staten Island Peace Conference Howe demanded that the Americans retract the Declaration of Independence which they refused to do and negotiations ended the British then seized New York City and nearly captured Washington's army They made New York their main political and military base of operations holding it until November 1783 the city became the destination for Loyalist refugees and a focal point of Washington's intelligence network, Types of republics[show] 10 References The following table shows the major tributaries of the North Branch Potomac River listed in order from the source to its mouth Numerous other tributary creeks exist. . Sunset over the Potomac near Mount Vernon, 14 References Painting of four men conferring in a ship's cabin entitled "The Peacemakers", 7.4 End of slavery Shrubs of the Potomac River Basin. .