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. 7.4 End of slavery, David Davis December 1 1862 December 8 1862 In Lincoln's first inaugural address he explored the nature of democracy He denounced secession as anarchy and explained that majority rule had to be balanced by constitutional restraints He said "A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments is the only true sovereign of a free people.":86. . Night scene depicting Washington at center standing among officers and Indians around a lamp holding a war council, A statue of young Lincoln sitting on a stump holding a book open on his lap, After having been depressed for many decades the river's population of American Shad is currently re-bounding as a result of the ICPRB's successful "American Shad Restoration Project" that was begun in 1995 in addition to stocking the river with more than 22 million shad fry the Project supervised construction of a fishway that was built to facilitate the passage of adults around the Little Falls Dam on the way to their traditional spawning grounds upstream. The First Continental Congress met briefly in Philadelphia Pennsylvania in 1774 consisting of 56 delegates from all thirteen American colonies except Georgia Among them was George Washington who would soon be drawn out of military retirement to command the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War Also in attendance were Patrick Henry and John Adams who like all delegates were elected by their respective colonial assemblies Other delegates included Samuel Adams from Massachusetts John Dickinson from Pennsylvania and New York's John Jay This congress in addition to formulating appeals to the British crown established the Continental Association to administer boycott actions against Britain. Washington D.C is located in Washington Metropolitan AreaCalvertCharlesFrederickMontgomeryPrince George'sAlexandriaAlexandriaArlingtonClarkeFairfaxFairfaxFairfax CountyFalls ChurchFalls ChurchFauquierLoudounManassasManassasManassas ParkManassas ParkPrince WilliamSpotsylvaniaStaffordFredericksburgFredericksburgWarrenWashingtonWashingtonJefferson Important structural changes included the direct popular election of senators according to the Seventeenth Amendment, ratified in April 8 1913 with positive effects (senators more sensitive to public opinion) and negative effects (undermining the authority of state governments). Supreme Court decisions based on the Constitution's commerce clause expanded congressional power to regulate the economy. One effect of popular election of senators was to reduce the difference between the House and Senate in terms of their link to the electorate. Lame duck reforms according to the Twentieth Amendment ended the power of defeated and retiring members of Congress to wield influence despite their lack of accountability. Washington's army went into winter quarters at New Windsor New York in December 1780 and Washington urged Congress and state officials to expedite provisions in hopes that the army would not "continue to struggle under the same difficulties they have hitherto endured". On March 1 1781 Congress ratified the Articles of Confederation but the government that took effect on March 2 did not have the power to levy taxes and it loosely held the states together. Elbridge Gerry was a member of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, The city's first motorized streetcars began service in 1888 and generated growth in areas of the District beyond the City of Washington's original boundaries Washington's urban plan was expanded throughout the District in the following decades. Georgetown's street grid and other administrative details were formally merged to those of the legal City of Washington in 1895. However the city had poor housing conditions and strained public works the District was the first city in the nation to undergo urban renewal projects as part of the "City Beautiful movement" in the early 1900s, "The victories in Mexico were in every instance over vastly superior numbers There were two reasons for this Both General Scott and General Taylor had such armies as are not often got together At the battles of Palo Alto and Resaca-de-la-Palma General Taylor had a small army but it was composed exclusively of regular troops under the best of drill and discipline Every officer from the highest to the lowest was educated in his profession not at West Point necessarily but in the camp in garrison and many of them in Indian wars the rank and file were probably inferior as material out of which to make an army to the volunteers that participated in all the later battles of the war; but they were brave men and then drill and discipline brought out all there was in them a better army man for man probably never faced an enemy than the one commanded by General Taylor in the earliest two engagements of the Mexican war the volunteers who followed were of better material but without drill or discipline at the start They were associated with so many disciplined men and professionally educated officers that when they went into engagements it was with a confidence they would not have felt otherwise They became soldiers themselves almost at once All these conditions we would enjoy again in case of war.".

Aftermath In 1830 a disgruntled ex-employee of the estate attempted to steal what he thought was Washington's skull prompting the construction of a more secure vault the next year the new vault was constructed at Mount Vernon to receive the remains of George and Martha and other relatives in 1832 a joint Congressional committee debated moving his body from Mount Vernon to a crypt in the Capitol the crypt had been built by architect Charles Bulfinch in the 1820s during the reconstruction of the burned-out capital after the Burning of Washington by the British during the War of 1812 Southern opposition was intense antagonized by an ever-growing rift between North and South; many were concerned that Washington's remains could end up on "a shore foreign to his native soil" if the country became divided and Washington's remains stayed in Mount Vernon. . . Robert Morris president of Pennsylvania's Committee of Safety and one of the founders of the financial system of the United States; !