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Washington owned slaves for labor and trading and supported measures passed by Congress protecting slavery in order to preserve national unity He later became troubled with the institution of slavery and freed his slaves in a 1799 will He endeavored to assimilate Native Americans into Western culture but responded to their hostility in times of war He was a member of the Anglican Church and the Freemasons and he urged broad religious freedom in his roles as general and president Upon his death he was eulogized as "first in war first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen." He has been memorialized by monuments art geographical locations stamps and currency and many scholars and polls rank him among the greatest American presidents. Sister cities Washington D.C. Business Directory. The South developed an agricultural economy dependent on commodity crops Its planters rapidly acquired a significantly higher number and proportion of slaves in the population overall as its commodity crops were labor-intensive. Early on enslaved people in the South worked primarily on farms and plantations growing indigo rice and tobacco; cotton did not become a major crop until after the American Revolution and after the 1790s Before then long-staple cotton was cultivated primarily on the Sea Islands of Georgia and South Carolina, Washington Gas is the city's natural gas utility and serves over one million customers in the District and its suburbs Incorporated by Congress in 1848 the company installed the city's first gas lights in the Capitol the White House and along Pennsylvania Avenue. Led by Zachary Taylor 2,300 U.S troops crossed the Rio Grande after some initial difficulties in obtaining river transport His soldiers occupied the city of Matamoros then Camargo (where the soldiery suffered the first of many problems with disease) and then proceeded south and besieged the city of Monterrey the hard-fought Battle of Monterrey resulted in serious losses on both sides the American light artillery was ineffective against the stone fortifications of the city the Mexican forces were under General Pedro de Ampudia and repulsed Taylor's best infantry division at Fort Teneria, Slaves were generally prohibited by law from associating in groups with the exception of worship services (a reason why the Black church is such a notable institution in black communities today) Following Nat Turner's rebellion in 1831 which raised white fears throughout the South some states also prohibited or restricted religious gatherings of slaves or required that they be officiated by white men Planters feared that group meetings would facilitate communication among slaves that could lead to rebellion. Slaves held private secret "brush meetings" in the woods!

. 3.2 "Fancy ladies" Washington D.C. Business Directory Washington is shown presiding as Master Mason over a lodge meeting Further information: New York and New Jersey campaign Staten Island Peace Conference Saratoga campaign and Philadelphia campaign. . Underground Railroad Nashville Convention, Bombardment of Veracruz, Battle of Long Island. The midterm elections in 1862 cost the Republicans severe losses due to rising inflation high taxes rumors of corruption suspension of habeas corpus military draft law and fears that freed slaves would come North and undermine the labor market the Emancipation Proclamation gained votes for Republicans in rural New England and the upper Midwest but cost votes in the Irish and German strongholds and in the lower Midwest where many Southerners had lived for generations.:6:322! General McClellan, The Siege of Yorktown Virginia was a decisive allied victory by the combined forces of the Continental Army commanded by General Washington the French Army commanded by the General Comte de Rochambeau and the French Navy commanded by Admiral de Grasse in the defeat of Cornwallis' British forces On August 19 the march to Yorktown led by Washington and Rochambeau began which is known now as the "celebrated march". Washington was in command of an army of 7,800 Frenchmen 3,100 militia and 8,000 Continentals Lacking in experience in siege warfare Washington often deferred judgment to Rochambeau effectively putting him in command however Rochambeau never challenged Washington's authority, The Dutch Republic also at war with Britain was the next country to sign a treaty with the United States on October 8 1782. On April 3 1783 Ambassador Extraordinary Gustaf Philip Creutz representing King Gustav III of Sweden and Benjamin Franklin signed a Treaty of Amity and Commerce with the U.S. A month before the end of the war Polk was criticized in a United States House of Representatives amendment to a bill praising Major General Zachary Taylor for "a war unnecessarily and unconstitutionally begun by the President of the United States." This criticism in which Congressman Abraham Lincoln played an important role with his Spot Resolutions followed congressional scrutiny of the war's beginnings including factual challenges to claims made by President Polk the vote followed party lines with all Whigs supporting the amendment Lincoln's attack won lukewarm support from fellow Whigs in Illinois but was harshly counter-attacked by Democrats who rallied pro-war sentiments in Illinois; Lincoln's Spot resolutions haunted his future campaigns in the heavily Democratic state of Illinois and were cited by enemies well into his presidency, Taylor takes office Washington D.C. Business Directory. Prior to World War II Hoover Field was the main commercial airport serving Washington on the site now occupied by the Pentagon and its parking lots it was replaced by Washington National Airport in 1941 a short distance southeast After the war in 1948 the Civil Aeronautics Administration began to consider sites for a second major airport to serve the nation's capital. Congress passed the Washington Airport Act in 1950 to provide funding for a new airport in the region the initial CAA proposal in 1951 called for the airport to be built in Fairfax County near what is now Burke Lake Park but protests from residents as well as the rapid expansion of Washington's suburbs during the time led to reconsideration of this plan. One competing plan called for the airport to be built in the Pender area of Fairfax County while another called for the conversion of Andrews Air Force Base in Prince George's County Maryland into an airport, Reconstruction Final days, Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense published in 1776 The U.S Census Bureau estimates that the District's population was 702,455 as of July 2018 an increase of more than 100,000 people since the 2010 United States Census. This continues a growth trend since 2000 following a half-century of population decline the city was the 24th most populous place in the United States as of 2010. According to data from 2010 commuters from the suburbs increase the District's daytime population to over one million people. If the District were a state it would rank 49th in population ahead of Vermont and Wyoming.