University of Utrecht Netherlands: Williamson The nation's first financial crisis occurred in March 1792 Hamilton's Federalists exploited large loans to gain control of U.S debt securities causing a run on the national bank; the markets returned to normal by mid-April. Jefferson believed that Hamilton was part of the scheme in spite of Hamilton's efforts to ameliorate and Washington again found himself in the middle of a feud. February 1 1784 News media often use the name of a capital city as an alternative name for the country of which it is the capital or of the government that is seated there as a form of metonymy for example "relations between Washington and London" refer to "relations between the United States and the United Kingdom". 4.2 Further hostilities Shortly after the Elizabeth Key trial and similar challenges in 1662 the Virginia royal colony approved a law adopting the principle of partus sequitur ventrem (called partus for short) stating that any children born in the colony would take the status of the mother a child of an enslaved mother would be born into slavery regardless if the father were a freeborn Englishman or Christian This was a reversal of common law practice in England which ruled that children of English subjects took the status of the father the change institutionalized the skewed power relationships between slave owners and slave women freed white men from the legal responsibility to acknowledge or financially support their mixed-race children and somewhat confined the open scandal of mixed-race children and miscegenation to within the slave quarters.
The Marine Barracks near Capitol Hill houses the United States Marine Band; founded in 1798 it is the country's oldest professional musical organization. American march composer and Washington-native John Philip Sousa led the Marine Band from 1880 until 1892. Founded in 1925 the United States Navy Band has its headquarters at the Washington Navy Yard and performs at official events and public concerts around the city. Washington has a strong local theater tradition Founded in 1950 Arena Stage achieved national attention and spurred growth in the city's independent theater movement that now includes organizations such as the Shakespeare Theatre Company Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and the Studio Theatre. Arena Stage opened its newly renovated home in the city's emerging Southwest waterfront area in 2010 the GALA Hispanic Theatre now housed in the historic Tivoli Theatre in Columbia Heights was founded in 1976 and is a National Center for the Latino Performing Arts, 14.2 General histories Bills are laws in the making a House-originated bill begins with the letters "H.R." for "House of Representatives" followed by a number kept as it progresses. . 1.1 Louisiana Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman in their 1974 book Time on the Cross argued that the rate of return of slavery at the market price was close to 10 percent a number close to investment in other assets Fogel's 1989 work Without Consent or Contract: the Rise and Fall of American Slavery elaborated on the moral indictment of slavery which ultimately led to its abolition. This section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
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