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Impact of the war in the United States, 7.1 Privileges protecting members, Countries whose capital is on the coast. Based on the President's war powers the Emancipation Proclamation applied to territory held by Confederates at the time However the Proclamation became a symbol of the Union's growing commitment to add emancipation to the Union's definition of liberty. Lincoln played a leading role in getting the constitutionally-required two-thirds majority of both houses of Congress to vote for the Thirteenth Amendment, which made emancipation universal and permanent.

. Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, Alexander Hamilton The signing of the Residence Act on July 16 1790 approved the creation of a capital district located along the Potomac River on the country's East Coast the U.S Constitution provided for a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of the U.S Congress and the District is therefore not a part of any U.S state the states of Maryland and Virginia each donated land to form the federal district which included the pre-existing settlements of Georgetown and Alexandria the City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital in 1846 Congress returned the land originally ceded by Virginia; in 1871 it created a single municipal government for the remaining portion of the District, Main article: Bleeding Kansas.