Wellington became the capital city of New Zealand in 1865 it lies at the southern tip of the North Island of New Zealand the smaller of New Zealand's two main islands (which subsequently became the more populous island,) immediately across Cook Strait from the South Island the previous capital Auckland lies much further north in the North Island; the move followed a long argument for a more central location for parliament. California: the executive and legislative branches and most government agencies are based in Sacramento but the California Supreme Court is headquartered in San Francisco, Romero led an Indian force to the house of Governor Charles Bent where they broke down the door shot Bent with arrows and scalped him in front of his family They moved on leaving Bent still alive With his wife Ignacia and children and the wives of friends Kit Carson and Thomas Boggs the group escaped by digging through the adobe walls of their house into the one next door When the insurgents discovered the party they killed Bent but left the women and children unharmed. . Shown in the presidential booth of Ford's Theatre from left to right are assassin John Wilkes Booth Abraham Lincoln Mary Todd Lincoln Clara Harris and Henry Rathbone. ! The regulars regarded the volunteers with importance and contempt . [The volunteers] robbed Mexicans of their cattle and corn stole their fences for firewood got drunk and killed several inoffensive inhabitants of the town in the streets, Main article: United States Capitol Police, Washington D.C has been a member state of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) since 2015; 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), Washington D.C. Business Directory Congress agreed to the compromise which narrowly passed as the Residence Act Jefferson was able to get the Virginia delegates to support the bill with the debt provisions while Hamilton convinced the New York delegates to agree to the Potomac site for the capital the bill was approved by the Senate by a vote of 14 to 12 on July 1 1790 and by the House of Representatives by a vote of 31 to 29 on July 9 1790. Washington signed the Act into law one week later on July 16 the Assumption Bill narrowly passed the Senate on July 16 1790 followed by passage in the House on July 26.
3 Preparation for war An average of approximately 486 million US gallons (1,840,000 m3) of water is withdrawn daily from the Potomac in the Washington area for water supply providing about 78 percent of the region's total water usage this amount includes approximately 80 percent of the drinking water consumed by the region's estimated 6,100,000 residents. Implied powers and the commerce clause, Grasses of the Potomac River Basin, Storming of Chapultepec The delegates to the Convention anticipated a Washington presidency and left it to him to define the office once elected.[n] the state electors under the Constitution voted for the president on February 4 1789 and Washington suspected that most republicans had not voted for him the mandated March 4 date passed without a Congressional quorum to count the votes but a quorum was reached on April 5 the votes were tallied the next day and Congressional Secretary Charles Thomson was sent to Mount Vernon to tell Washington that he had been elected president Washington won the majority of every state's electoral votes; John Adams received the next highest number of votes and therefore became vice president. Washington had "anxious and painful sensations" about leaving the "domestic felicity" of Mount Vernon but he departed for New York City on April 23 to be inaugurated. In addition many parts of the country were tied to the Southern economy As the historian James Oliver Horton noted prominent slaveholder politicians and the commodity crops of the South had a strong influence on United States politics and economy Horton said. Washington D.C. Business Directory, During the Reconstruction Era from January 1 1863 to March 31 1877 federal troops were stationed in the south specifically to protect black rights and prevent them from being re-enslaved However in the Gilded Age that followed the withdrawal blacks were left at the mercy of the whites When African Americans in the South no longer had the protection of federal troops whites imposed laws to prevent them from voting restrict their movement and found other ways to practice involuntary servitude, The Arizona Organic Act abolished slavery on February 24 1863 in the newly formed Arizona Territory Tennessee and all of the border states (except Kentucky) abolished slavery by early 1865 Thousands of slaves were freed by the operation of the Emancipation Proclamation as Union armies marched across the South Emancipation came to the remaining southern slaves after the surrender of all Confederate troops in spring 1865. The White House ruins after the conflagration of August 24 1814 Watercolor by George Munger displayed at the White House, Robert Morris president of Pennsylvania's Committee of Safety and one of the founders of the financial system of the United States.
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