Residence Act of 1790
Introduction - Residence Act: Primary Documents in American History
Passed on July 16, 1790, the Residence Act selected a site on the Potomac River as the permanent US capital (Washington, DC).
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.
Residence Act of 1790 | George Washington's Mount Vernon
Image courtesy of National Archives, https://catalog.archives.gov/id/299948 This Act officially moved the capital from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C. The ...
Memorandum from Thomas Jefferson, 29 August 1790
The Residence Act authorized the president to appoint three commissioners who would be responsible for surveying the boundaries of a district ten miles square ...
Today in History - July 16 | Library of Congress
On July 16, 1790, the Residence Act, which stipulated that the president select a site on the Potomac River as the permanent capital of the United States.
President Washington signs Residence Act, July 16, 1790 - POLITICO
On this day in 1790, President George Washington signed into law the Residence Act, which granted him the power to select a new site for a ...
First Federal Congress: Locating the United States Capital
At the end of May 1790 the Senate took up a new residence bill. A month later it named the Potomac River as the site of the permanent capital and Philadelphia ...
V. Implementation of the Residence Act, 1790-1800
By 1790, both advisers knew exactly where Washing- ton planned to locate the federal district, and both agreed that the residence act could be interpreted to ...
Compromise of 1790 | American Battlefield Trust
As part of the Compromise of 1790, the Residence Act was passed in July 1790, establishing the U.S. capital in Washington, D.C. In exchange, The Funding Act ...
The Residence Act, July 16, 1790 - Ruhr-Universität Bochum
An act for establishing the temporary and permanent seat of the Government of the United States. Section 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF ...
How Philadelphia lost the nation's capital to Washington
The Residence Act of July 16, 1790, put the nation's capital in current-day Washington as part of a plan to appease pro-slavery states.
Building the New Nation's Capital | George Washington's Mount ...
In July 1790, Congress passed the Residence Act which called for the permanent capital of the United States to be located on the Potomac River.
Constitutionality of the Residence Bill, [ca. 14 July] 1790
The brief memorandum printed below is the only surviving record of JM's opinion regarding the constitutionality of the bill which fixed the permanent national ...
1791 George Washington - Residence Act and the Compromise of ...
On July 16, 1790 George Washington signed into law the Residence Act of 1790. This act settled the question of where the capital of the United State would be ...
Beit enacted by the Senate ant? House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act passed the present session of ...
H. R. 40, Naturalization Bill, March 4, 1790 | U.S. Capitol
These criteria permitted free whites of good character with two years' residence in the United States to become naturalized citizens. ... This 1790 act set the ...
STATUTE II. July 16,1790. Act of March. 3, 1791, ch. 17. District on the. Potomac ...
July 16: DC Selected as US Capital | FCIT
On this date in 1790, President George Washington signed the Residence Act establishing first a temporary capital for the United States and then a permanent ...
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RESIDENCE ACT – COMPROMISE OF 1790 & WASHINGTON DC
Hamilton argued that all revolutionary debt should be consolidated together, with the new federal government assuming state debt.