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Business Directory, This section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed (February 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this template message), The resulting constitutions in states such as Maryland Virginia Delaware New York and Massachusetts featured:. ; 6.2.3 Whiskey Rebellion The city was defended by Mexican General Juan Morales with 3,400 men Mortars and naval guns under Commodore Matthew C Perry were used to reduce the city walls and harass defenders After a bombardment on March 24 1847 the walls of Veracruz had a thirty-foot gap the city replied the best it could with its own artillery the effect of the extended barrage destroyed the will of the Mexican side to fight against a numerically superior force and they surrendered the city after 12 days under siege U.S troops suffered 80 casualties while the Mexican side had around 180 killed and wounded while hundreds of civilians were killed. During the siege the U.S side began to fall victim to yellow fever! 2.1 Inter-terminal transportation In 1735 the Georgia Trustees enacted a law prohibiting slavery in the new colony which had been established in 1733 to enable the "worthy poor" as well as persecuted European Protestants to have a new start Slavery was then legal in the other twelve English colonies Neighboring South Carolina had an economy based on the use of enslaved labor the Georgia Trustees wanted to eliminate the risk of slave rebellions and make Georgia better able to defend against attacks from the Spanish to the south who offered freedom to escaped slaves James Edward Oglethorpe was the driving force behind the colony and the only trustee to reside in Georgia He opposed slavery on moral grounds as well as for pragmatic reasons and vigorously defended the ban on slavery against fierce opposition from Carolina slave merchants and land speculators, 5 Washington D.C during the later stages of the War, Missouri Compromise When Lincoln was assassinated in Ford's Theater in April 1865 thousands flocked into Washington to view the coffin further raising the profile of the city the new president Andrew Johnson wanted to dispel the funereal atmosphere and organized a program of victory parades which revived public hopes for the future. 4.1.2 Power The nature of slavery in Cherokee society often mirrored that of white slave-owning society the law barred intermarriage of Cherokees and enslaved African Americans but Cherokee men had unions with enslaved women resulting in mixed-race children. Cherokee who aided slaves were punished with one hundred lashes on the back in Cherokee society persons of African descent were barred from holding office even if they were also racially and culturally Cherokee They were also barred from bearing arms and owning property the Cherokee prohibited teaching African Americans to read and write, While under the Constitution Congress could not prohibit the import slave trade until 1808 the third Congress regulated it in the Slave Trade Act of 1794 which prohibited shipbuilding and outfitting for the trade Subsequent acts in 1800 and 1803 sought to discourage the trade by limiting investment in import trading and prohibiting importation into states that had abolished slavery which most in the North had by that time the final Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves was adopted in 1807 effective in 1808 However illegal importation of African slaves (smuggling) was common. Lufthansa: Senator Lounge and Business Lounge B Concourse at gate B51, Concurrent Resolutions affect only both the House and Senate and accordingly are not presented to the president for approval later in the House they begin with "H.Con.Res.", Washington soon was counted among the political and social elite in Virginia From 1768 to 1775 he invited some 2,000 guests to his Mount Vernon estate mostly those whom he considered "people of rank" He became more politically active in 1769 presenting legislation in the Virginia Assembly to establish an embargo on goods from Great Britain. John Morton Pennsylvania 2 Yes Yes Debate and results, Parliament sought to punish Massachusetts colonists for their role in the Boston Tea Party in 1774 by passing the Coersive Acts which Washington referred to as "an Invasion of our Rights and Privileges". He said Americans must not submit to acts of tyranny since "custom and use shall make us as tame and abject slaves as the blacks we rule over with such arbitrary sway". That July he and George Mason drafted a list of resolutions for the Fairfax County committee which Washington chaired and the committee adopted the Fairfax Resolves calling for a Continental Congress. On August 1 Washington attended the First Virginia Convention where he was selected as a delegate to the First Continental Congress as tensions rose in 1774 he assisted in the training of county militias in Virginia and organized enforcement of the Continental Association boycott of British goods instituted by the Congress, 2.1 Inter-terminal transportation In 2012 Washington's annual murder count had dropped to 88 the lowest total since 1961 the murder rate has since risen from that historic low though it remains close to half the rate of the early 2000s. Washington was once described as the "murder capital" of the United States during the early 1990s the number of murders peaked in 1991 at 479 but the level of violence then began to decline significantly.