District of Columbia retrocession is the act of returning some or all of the land that had been ceded to the federal government of the United States for...
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Cession (redirect from Retrocession)
Examples: District of Columbia retrocession, the retrocession to Virginia, and potentially to Maryland, of the land ceded to create the District of Columbia Retrocession...
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uniting the District of Columbia with the State of Maryland is referred to as retrocession. The District was originally formed out of parts of both Maryland...
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return of the portion of the District south and west of the Potomac River to Virginia in 1846 (see: District of Columbia retrocession). The District of Columbia...
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Washington, D.C. (redirect from District of Columbia, District of Columbia)
Mark David (Spring–Summer 2004). "The Debates over the Retrocession of the District of Columbia, 1801–2004" (PDF). Washington History: 54–82. Archived...
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reuniting the District of Columbia with the state of Maryland is referred to as retrocession. The District was originally formed out of parts of both Maryland...
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Quadrants of Washington, D.C.. District of Columbia retrocession Adam Froehlig (March 18, 2011). "How much land is...
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of Maryland and Virginia in accordance with the Residence Act; however, in 1846, the retrocession of the District of Columbia, meant that the area of...
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Nat Turner (category 19th-century executions of American people)
rebellion of both enslaved and free Black people in Southampton County, Virginia in August 1831. Nat Turner's Rebellion resulted in the death of approximately...
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returned to the state of Virginia in 1846. See: District of Columbia retrocession ^[b] Data provided by "District of Columbia - Race and Hispanic Origin:...
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proposals to statehood include the retrocession of the District of Columbia and voting rights reforms. If the District of Columbia were to become a state, it...
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presidential candidate Jo Jorgensen David Krucoff (independent), District of Columbia retrocession activist Amir Lowery (independent), former Major League Soccer...
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formal approval of retrocession, occurred September 7, 1846. The circuit court, district court, and criminal court of the District of Columbia were finally...
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Angela (enslaved woman) (category Year of birth unknown)
one of the first enslaved Africans to be officially recorded in the Colony of Virginia in 1619. Angela's early life is little known, and her date of birth...
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Anthony Johnson (colonist) (category Year of birth unknown)
an Angolan-born man who achieved wealth in the early 17th-century Colony of Virginia. Held as an indentured servant in 1621, he earned his freedom after...
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Shockoe Hill neighborhood (later known as the Court End District), and was two blocks north of the Virginia State Capitol. Among his neighbors were U.S...
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James Monroe (redirect from 5th President of the United States of America)
208, 215. Rothbard, Murray (1962). The Panic of 1819: Reactions and Policies (PDF). New York: Columbia University Press. p. 12. Dangerfield 1965, pp...
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Booker T. Washington (redirect from List of books written by Booker T. Washington)
Washington was the primary leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary Black elite. Born into slavery on April 5, 1856, in Hale's...
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from Virginia and Maryland, 1790. District of Columbia retrocession; the return to Virginia of the District of Columbia lands which Virginia had originally...
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Henry Box Brown (redirect from The Resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia)
1897) was a 19th-century Virginia slave who escaped to freedom at the age of 33 by arranging to have himself mailed in a wooden crate in 1849 to abolitionists...
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John Armfield (category American people of English descent)
partnership of Franklin & Armfield to buy slaves in the Upper South: the mid-Atlantic states (Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia), where...
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Great Dismal Swamp maroons (category African-American history of North Carolina)
The Great Dismal Swamp maroons were people who inhabited the swamplands of the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina after escaping enslavement...
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John Wayles (category American people of English descent)
He is historically best known as the father-in-law of Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States. Wayles married three times, with these...
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Virginia with the District of Columbia retrocession. Once again a part of Virginia, Alexandria's slave trading business was secure. One of the main reasons...
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William Barton Rogers (category Presidents of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
College of William & Mary from 1828 to 1835 and at the University of Virginia from 1835 to 1853. In 1861, Rogers founded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
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Gabriel's Rebellion (category 18th-century executions of American people)
was a planned slave rebellion in the Richmond, Virginia, area in the summer of 1800. Information regarding the revolt was leaked before its execution, and...
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John Punch (slave) (category Year of death unknown)
Paul2, head of a Union District, South Carolina household of 6 "other free" in 1800 [SC:241]. iv. Henry4, head of a Newberry District, South Carolina...
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era (1865–1877), when it was administered as Military District Number One. The first signs of recovery were seen in tobacco cultivation and the related...
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Nat Turner's Rebellion (category African-American history of Virginia)
Rebellion, historically known as the Southampton Insurrection, was a rebellion of enslaved Virginians that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August...
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George Henry Thomas (redirect from Rock of Chickamauga)
Congressman John Y. Mason, who warned Thomas that no nominee from his district had ever graduated successfully. Entering at age 20, Thomas was known to...
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