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4.9 Religion Thousands of raw volunteers (as well as many professional soldiers) came to the area to fight for the Union By the mid-summer Washington teemed with volunteer regiments and artillery batteries from throughout the North all serviced by what was little more than a country town of what had been in 1860 75,800 people.[b] George Templeton Strong's observation of Washington life led him to declare, On March 1 1847 Alexander W Doniphan occupied Chihuahua City British consul John Potts did not want to let Doniphan search Governor Trias's mansion and unsuccessfully asserted it was under British protection American merchants in Chihuahua wanted the American force to stay in order to protect their business Major William Gilpin advocated a march on Mexico City and convinced a majority of officers but Doniphan subverted this plan Then in late April Taylor ordered the First Missouri Mounted Volunteers to leave Chihuahua and join him at Saltillo the American merchants either followed or returned to Santa Fe Along the way the townspeople of Parras enlisted Doniphan's aid against an Indian raiding party that had taken children horses mules and money. Battle of Long Island, 8 Reconstruction In the 1830s the District's southern territory of Alexandria went into economic decline partly due to neglect by Congress the city of Alexandria was a major market in the American slave trade and pro-slavery residents feared that abolitionists in Congress would end slavery in the District further depressing the economy Alexandria's citizens petitioned Virginia to take back the land it had donated to form the District through a process known as retrocession. . See also: List of parochial and private schools in Washington D.C News media often use the name of a capital city as an alternative name for the country of which it is the capital or of the government that is seated there as a form of metonymy for example "relations between Washington and London" refer to "relations between the United States and the United Kingdom". The northern area of Mexico was sparsely settled and not well controlled politically by the government based in Mexico City After independence Mexico contended with internal struggles that sometimes verged on civil war and the northern frontier was not a high priority in northern Mexico the end of Spanish rule was marked by the end of financing for presidios and for gifts to Native Americans to maintain the peace the Comanche and Apache were successful in raiding for livestock and looting much of northern Mexico outside the scattered cities Northern Mexico was a violent and chaotic area due to the Indian raids the raids after 1821 resulted in the death of thousands of Mexicans halted most transportation and communications and decimated the ranching industry that was a mainstay of the northern economy As a result the demoralized civilian population of northern Mexico put up little resistance to the invading U.S army, 1 Choice of location Main article: Presidency of Abraham Lincoln. 1.3 Education Farewell Address Contents 6.3 Foreign affairs South Fork South Branch Potomac River; United Nations Headquarters New York City Edward Telfair Georgia 1 Yes; Emanuel Leutze's famous 1851 depiction of Washington Crossing the Delaware, American Slavery As it Is None of the Southern states abolished slavery but it was common for individual slaveholders in the South to free numerous slaves often citing revolutionary ideals in their wills Methodist Quaker and Baptist preachers traveled in the South appealing to slaveholders to manumit their slaves by 1810 the number and proportion of free blacks in the population of the United States had risen dramatically Most free blacks resided in the North but even in the Upper South the proportion of free blacks went from less than one percent of all blacks to more than 10 percent even as the total number of slaves was increasing through importation!

2 Geography Main articles: Valley Forge and Battle of Monmouth 1842 Slave Revolt in the Cherokee Nation. Subsequent English governments continued in their efforts to tax certain goods passing acts regulating the trade of wool, hats and molasses the Molasses Act of 1733 in particular was egregious to the colonists as a significant part of colonial trade relied on the product the taxes severely damaged the New England economy and the taxes were rarely paid resulting in a surge of smuggling bribery and intimidation of customs officials. Colonial wars fought in America were often the source of considerable tension the British captured the fortress of Louisbourg during the War of the Austrian Succession but then ceded it back to France in 1748 New England colonists resented their losses of lives as well as the effort and expenditure involved in subduing the fortress only to have it returned to their erstwhile enemy, The resulting constitutions in states such as Maryland Virginia Delaware New York and Massachusetts featured:, Central concepts[show] Organized 1801 Seal History Effects of the Revolution. The successful reunification of the states had consequences for the name of the country the term "the United States" has historically been used sometimes in the plural ("these United States") and other times in the singular without any particular grammatical consistency the Civil War was a significant force in the eventual dominance of the singular usage by the end of the 19th century, Howe's troop strength totaled 32,000 regulars and Hessians and Washington's consisted of 23,000 mostly raw recruits and militia in August Howe landed 20,000 troops at Gravesend Brooklyn and approached Washington's fortifications as King George III proclaimed the rebellious American colonists to be traitors. Washington opposing his generals chose to fight based on inaccurate information that Howe's army had only 8,000 plus troops. Howe assaulted Washington's flank and inflicted 1,500 Patriot casualties with the British suffering 400. Washington retreated instructing General William Heath to acquisition river craft in the area On August 30 General William Alexander held off the British and gave cover while the army crossed the East River under darkness to Manhattan Island without loss of life or material although Alexander was captured, Main article: Gettysburg Address Lizards of the Potomac River Basin!