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. Surrender at Yorktown (1781) 4 Legal issues From late 1848 Americans and foreigners of many different countries rushed into California for the California Gold Rush exponentially increasing the population in response to growing demand for a better more representative government a Constitutional Convention was held in 1849 the delegates unanimously outlawed slavery They had no interest in extending the Missouri Compromise Line through California and splitting the state; the lightly-populated southern half never had slavery and was heavily Hispanic, After burning the Capitol the British turned northwest up Pennsylvania Avenue toward the White House After US government officials and President Madison fled the city the First Lady Dolley Madison received a letter from her husband urging her to be prepared to leave Washington at a moment's notice. Dolley organized the slaves and staff to save valuables from the British. James Madison's personal slave the fifteen-year-old boy Paul Jennings was an eyewitness. After later buying his freedom from the widow Dolley Madison Jennings published his memoir in 1865 considered the first from the White House:. Both parties deprecated war but one of them would make war rather than let the Nation survive and the other would accept war rather than let it perish and the war came, Construction of the 12-story Cairo Apartment Building (1894) spurred building height restrictions, At the beginning of the war some Union commanders thought they were supposed to return escaped slaves to their masters by 1862 when it became clear that this would be a long war the question of what to do about slavery became more general the Southern economy and military effort depended on slave labor it began to seem unreasonable to protect slavery while blockading Southern commerce and destroying Southern production as Congressman George W Julian of Indiana put it in an 1862 speech in Congress the slaves "cannot be neutral as laborers if not as soldiers they will be allies of the rebels or of the Union." Julian and his fellow Radical Republicans put pressure on Lincoln to rapidly emancipate the slaves whereas moderate Republicans came to accept gradual compensated emancipation and colonization. Copperheads the border states and War Democrats opposed emancipation although the border states and War Democrats eventually accepted it as part of total war needed to save the Union.

Abolition of slavery in the various states of the US over time:. . .