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6.1 Advantage of incumbency Main article: Joint session of the United States Congress, Presidency Several of the Founding Fathers had extensive national state local and foreign political experience prior to the adoption of the Constitution in 1787 Some had been diplomats Several had been members of the Continental Congress or elected president of that body. ! . Prices of slaves Santa Anna promised the U.S that if he was allowed to pass through the blockade he would negotiate a peaceful conclusion to the war and sell the New Mexico and Alta California territories to the U.S. Once Santa Anna arrived in Mexico City however he reneged on his deal with the U.S and offered his services to the Mexican government Then after being appointed commanding general he reneged again and seized the presidency, The marriage gave Washington control over Martha's one-third dower interest in the 18,000-acre (7,300 ha) Custis estate and he managed the remaining two-thirds for Martha's children; the estate also included 84 slaves He became one of Virginia's wealthiest men which increased his social standing.

Washington D.C. Business Directory The Continental Army further diminished by expiring short-term enlistments and by January 1776 was reduced by half to 9,600 men had to be supplemented with militia and was joined by Knox with heavy artillery captured from Fort Ticonderoga. When the Charles River froze over Washington was eager to cross and storm Boston but General Gates and others were opposed to untrained militia striking well garrisoned fortifications Washington reluctantly agreed to secure Dorchester Heights 100 feet above Boston in an attempt to force the British out of the city. On March 9 under cover of darkness Washington's troops brought up Knox's big guns and bombarded British ships in Boston harbor by March 17 9,000 British troops and Loyalists began a chaotic 10-day evacuation of Boston aboard 120 ships Soon after Washington entered the city with 500 men with strict orders not to plunder the city He ordered vaccinations against smallpox to great effect as he did later in Morristown New Jersey. He refrained from exerting military authority in Boston leaving civilian matters in the hands of local authorities.[j]. . . ! 5 Flora of the Potomac River Basin The district encompassed three small cities: Alexandria formerly in Virginia Georgetown formerly Maryland and the deliberately planned central core the City of Washington Both the White House and the United States Capitol were already completed and in use by 1800 as called for by the 1791 L'Enfant Plan for the City of Washington although the city was not formally chartered until 1802 Beyond those cities the remainder of the District was farmland organized by the 1801 Act into two counties Washington County D.C east of the Potomac and Alexandria County D.C on the west side encompassing today's Arlington County and the independent city of Alexandria. Read's entry into the political arena was as a commissioner of the town of Charlestown Maryland. The United States delegation at the 1783 Treaty of Paris included John Jay John Adams Benjamin Franklin Henry Laurens and William Temple Franklin Here they are depicted by Benjamin West in his American Commissioners of the Preliminary Peace Agreement with Great Britain the British delegation refused to pose and the painting was never completed.