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. Main article: Joint session of the United States Congress, The United States Capitol after the burning of Washington D.C in the War of 1812 Watercolor and ink depiction from 1814 restored, Regarding the beginning of the war Ulysses S Grant who had opposed the war but served as an army lieutenant in Taylor's Army claims in his Personal Memoirs (1885) that the main goal of the U.S Army's advance from Nueces River to Rio Grande was to provoke the outbreak of war without attacking first to debilitate any political opposition to the war.

. . Lincoln at Antietam Airline lounges The Residence Act of 1790 officially titled an Act for establishing the temporary and permanent seat of the Government of the United States (1 Stat 130) was a United States federal statute adopted during the second session of the First United States Congress and signed into law by President George Washington on July 16 1790 the Act provided for a national capital and permanent seat of government to be established at a site along the Potomac River and empowered President Washington to appoint commissioners to oversee the project it also set a deadline of December 1800 for the capital to be ready and designated Philadelphia as the nation's temporary capital while the new seat of government was being built At the time the federal government was operating out of New York City. !