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Congress is constantly changing and is constantly in flux in recent times the American south and west have gained House seats according to demographic changes recorded by the census and includes more minorities and women although both groups are still underrepresented. While power balances among the different parts of government continue to change the internal structure of Congress is important to understand along with its interactions with so-called intermediary institutions such as political parties civic associations interest groups and the mass media; Date Slaves Washington D.C. Business Directory, The Army of the Potomac was the first to parade through the city on May 23 in a procession that stretched for seven miles the mood in Washington was now one of gaiety and celebration and the crowds and soldiers frequently engaged in singing patriotic songs as column passed the reviewing stand in front of the White House where President Johnson general-in-chief Ulysses S Grant senior military leaders the Cabinet and leading government officials awaited. Prior to World War II Hoover Field was the main commercial airport serving Washington on the site now occupied by the Pentagon and its parking lots it was replaced by Washington National Airport in 1941 a short distance southeast After the war in 1948 the Civil Aeronautics Administration began to consider sites for a second major airport to serve the nation's capital. Congress passed the Washington Airport Act in 1950 to provide funding for a new airport in the region the initial CAA proposal in 1951 called for the airport to be built in Fairfax County near what is now Burke Lake Park but protests from residents as well as the rapid expansion of Washington's suburbs during the time led to reconsideration of this plan. One competing plan called for the airport to be built in the Pender area of Fairfax County while another called for the conversion of Andrews Air Force Base in Prince George's County Maryland into an airport, Trees of the Potomac River Basin. 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]. At Washington's urging Governor Lord Botetourt fulfilled Dinwiddie's 1754 promise of land bounties to all volunteer militia during the French and Indian War in late 1770 Washington inspected the lands in the Ohio and Great Kanawha regions and he engaged surveyor William Crawford to subdivide it Crawford allotted 23,200 acres (9,400 ha) to Washington; Washington told the veterans that their land was hilly and unsuitable for farming and he agreed to purchase 20,147 acres (8,153 ha) leaving some feeling that they had been duped. He also doubled the size of Mount Vernon to 6,500 acres (2,600 ha) and increased its slave population to more than 100 by 1775, The Founding Fathers practiced a wide range of high and middle-status occupations and many pursued more than one career simultaneously They did not differ dramatically from the Loyalists except they were generally younger and less senior in their professions, Ideas[show] Officer Washington D.C. Business Directory. John Dickinson authored the first draft of the Articles of Confederation in 1776 while serving in the Continental Congress as a delegate from Pennsylvania and signed them late the following year after being elected to Congress as a delegate from Delaware, History[show] Francis Lightfoot Lee Virginia 2 Yes Yes, U.S brig Perry confronting the slave ship Martha off Ambriz on June 6 1850.

13.3 Bibliography General Grant General Grant West Virginia was admitted to the Union on June 20 1863 Nevada which became the third State in the far-west of the continent was admitted as a free state on October 31 1864.:300 539. Morrill Tariff Harewood General Hospital, The signing of the Residence Act on July 16 1790 approved the creation of a capital district located along the Potomac River on the country's East Coast the U.S Constitution provided for a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of the U.S Congress and the District is therefore not a part of any U.S state the states of Maryland and Virginia each donated land to form the federal district which included the pre-existing settlements of Georgetown and Alexandria the City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital in 1846 Congress returned the land originally ceded by Virginia; in 1871 it created a single municipal government for the remaining portion of the District.