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The Potomac River (/p?'to?m?k/ (About this soundlisten)) is found within the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States and flows from the Potomac Highlands into the Chesapeake Bay the river (main stem and North Branch) is approximately 405 miles (652 km) long, with a drainage area of about 14,700 square miles (38,000 km2) in terms of area this makes the Potomac River the fourth largest river along the Atlantic coast of the United States and the 21st largest in the United States Over 5 million people live within the Potomac watershed, Eastern Box Turtles are frequently spotted along the towpath of the C&O Canal. The Blodget Hotel which housed the US Patent Office; spared during the burning of Washington in 1814 the Patent Office later burned in 1836, 6.2 Smaller states and bigger states Confederate troops crossing the fords of the Potomac in early September 1862 for the invasion of Maryland which would culminate in the Battle of Antietam (Print of a wood carving based on a drawing by Thomas Nast; first published in the September 27 1862 edition of Harper's Weekly.); . John Adams is a stern middle-aged man with gray hair is wearing a dark red suit He is standing behind a table holding a rolled up document in one hand and pointing with the other hand to a large document on the table, A picture of the two sarcophagi of George (at right) and Martha Washington at the present tomb at Mount Vernon. 1870 0 4,880,009 4,880,009 100% 38,558,371 13% To end another war scare with the United Kingdom over the Oregon Country Polk signed the Oregon Treaty dividing the territory angering northern Democrats who felt he was prioritizing Southern expansion over Northern expansion, Finances Missouri Compromise, Main article: Transportation in Washington D.C Elbridge Gerry was a member of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress. . Others argue that the Compromise only made more obvious the pre-existing sectional divisions and laid the groundwork for future conflict They view the Fugitive Slave Law as helping to polarize the US as shown in the enormous reaction to Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law aroused feelings of bitterness in the North Furthermore the Compromise of 1850 led to a breakdown in the spirit of compromise in the United States in the antebellum period directly before the Civil War the Compromise exemplifies that spirit but the deaths of influential senators who worked on the compromise primarily Henry Clay and Daniel Webster contributed to the feeling of increasing disparity between the North and South, An average of approximately 486 million US gallons (1,840,000 m3) of water is withdrawn daily from the Potomac in the Washington area for water supply providing about 78 percent of the region's total water usage this amount includes approximately 80 percent of the drinking water consumed by the region's estimated 6,100,000 residents. Washington was a talented equestrian early in life He collected thoroughbreds at Mount Vernon and his two favorite horses were Blueskin and Nelson. Fellow Virginian Thomas Jefferson said that Washington was "the best horseman of his age and the most graceful figure that could be seen on horseback"; he also hunted foxes deer ducks and other game. He was an excellent dancer and attended the theater frequently He drank in moderation but was morally opposed to excessive drinking smoking tobacco gambling and profanity, This omission was not related to any constitutional restriction or apparently any rationale at all Legal scholars in 2004 called the omission of voting rights a simple "historical accident" pointing out that the preceding Residence Act of July 16 1790 exercising the same constitutional authority over the same territory around the Potomac had protected the votes of the district's citizens in federal and state elections Those citizens had indeed continued to cast ballots from 1790 through 1800 for their U.S House representatives and for their Maryland and Virginia state legislators. James Madison had written in the Federalist No 43 that the citizens of the federal district should "of course" have their will represented "derived from their own suffrages." the necessary language simply did not appear in the 1801 legislation.

Further information: Post-presidency of George Washington, George W Getty Union military strategy, Debate and results A large majority of profit-oriented free black slaveholders resided in the Lower South For the most part they were persons of mixed racial origin often women who cohabited or were mistresses of white men or mulatto men . Provided land and slaves by whites they owned farms and plantations worked their hands in the rice cotton and sugar fields and like their white contemporaries were troubled with runaways. The Capitol was according to some contemporary travelers the only building in Washington "worthy to be noticed." Thus it was a prime target for the British invaders both for its aesthetic and symbolic value Upon arrival into the city via Maryland Avenue the British targeted the Capitol (first the southern wing containing the House of Representatives then the northern wing containing the Senate). Prior to setting it aflame the British looted the building (which at that time housed Congress the Library of Congress and the Supreme Court) Items looted by British General Sir George Cockburn included "An account of the receipts and expenditures of the United States for the year 1810."! The city was defended by Mexican General Juan Morales with 3,400 men Mortars and naval guns under Commodore Matthew C Perry were used to reduce the city walls and harass defenders After a bombardment on March 24 1847 the walls of Veracruz had a thirty-foot gap the city replied the best it could with its own artillery the effect of the extended barrage destroyed the will of the Mexican side to fight against a numerically superior force and they surrendered the city after 12 days under siege U.S troops suffered 80 casualties while the Mexican side had around 180 killed and wounded while hundreds of civilians were killed. During the siege the U.S side began to fall victim to yellow fever. . . Private universities include American University (AU) the Catholic University of America (CUA) Gallaudet University George Washington University (GW) Georgetown University (GU) Howard University (HU) the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and Trinity Washington University the Corcoran College of Art and Design the oldest arts school in the capital was absorbed into the George Washington University in 2014 now serving as its college of arts, 9.4 Patriots Outbreak of the war, None of the Southern states abolished slavery but it was common for individual slaveholders in the South to free numerous slaves often citing revolutionary ideals in their wills Methodist Quaker and Baptist preachers traveled in the South appealing to slaveholders to manumit their slaves by 1810 the number and proportion of free blacks in the population of the United States had risen dramatically Most free blacks resided in the North but even in the Upper South the proportion of free blacks went from less than one percent of all blacks to more than 10 percent even as the total number of slaves was increasing through importation. 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.