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. During the War of 1812 British Royal Navy commanders of the blockading fleet based at the Bermuda dockyard were instructed to offer freedom to defecting American slaves as the Crown had during the Revolutionary War Thousands of escaped slaves went over to the Crown with their families Men were recruited into the Corps of Colonial Marines on occupied Tangier Island in the Chesapeake Bay, Congress and the public the American Civil War. The District has growing industries not directly related to government especially in the areas of education finance public policy and scientific research Georgetown University George Washington University Washington Hospital Center Children's National Medical Center and Howard University are the top five non-government-related employers in the city as of 2009. According to statistics compiled in 2011 four of the largest 500 companies in the country were headquartered in the District in the 2017 Global Financial Centres Index Washington was ranked as having the 12th most competitive financial center in the world and fifth most competitive in the United States (after New York City San Francisco Chicago and Boston). See also: Anti-literacy law, Abolitionism in the North Thomas Mifflin Pennsylvania 2 Yes Yes Washington had an estimated population of 702,455 as of July 2018, making it the 20th most populous city in the United States Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the city's daytime population to more than one million during the workweek. Washington's metropolitan area the country's sixth largest had a 2017 estimated population of 6.2 million residents! . . 10.2 American Indians Kentucky 12,430 40,343 80,561 126,732 165,213 182,258 210,981 225,483 A deliberately planned city that was built expressly to house the seat of government superseding a capital city that was in an established population center There have been various reasons for this including overcrowding in that major metropolitan area and the desire to place the capital city in a location with a better climate (usually a less tropical one). Reelection These are lawmakers who "never met a voter they didn't like" and provide excellent constituent services.

. San Salvador El Salvador (2018) Johannes Adam Simon Oertel Pulling Down the Statue of King George III N.Y.C ca 1859, Further information: Civil War Defenses of Washington. Washington D.C. Business Directory As part of the Compromise of 1850 Congress abolished the domestic slave trade (though not the legality of slavery) in the District of Columbia After 1854 Republicans argued that the Slave Power especially the pro-slavery Democratic Party controlled two of the three branches of the Federal government. The members of the House of Representatives serve two-year terms representing the people of a single constituency known as a "district" Congressional districts are apportioned to states by population using the United States Census results provided that each state has at least one congressional representative Each state regardless of population or size has two senators Currently there are 100 senators representing the 50 states Each senator is elected at-large in their state for a six-year term with terms staggered so every two years approximately one-third of the Senate is up for election. . Countries whose capital is not on the coast, Some tribes held people as captive slaves late in the 19th century for instance "Ute Woman" was a Ute captured by the Arapaho and later sold to a Cheyenne She was kept by the Cheyenne to be used as a prostitute to serve American soldiers at Cantonment in the Indian Territory She lived in slavery until about 1880 She died of a hemorrhage resulting from "excessive sexual intercourse". Thomas Mifflin Pennsylvania 2 Yes Yes Main article: Abolitionism in the United States A 1774 etching from the London Magazine copied by Paul Revere of Boston Prime Minister Lord North author of the Boston Port Act forces the Intolerable Acts down the throat of America whose arms are restrained by Lord Chief Justice Mansfield while the 4th Earl of Sandwich pins down her feet and peers up her skirt Behind them Mother Britannia weeps helplessly while France and Spain look on. In 1973 Congress enacted the District of Columbia Home Rule Act providing for an elected mayor and 13-member council for the District in 1975 Walter Washington became the first elected and first black mayor of the District!