Washington's efforts included cooperating with white people and enlisting the support of wealthy philanthropists, helping to raise funds to establish and operate thousands of small community schools and institutions of higher education for the betterment of blacks throughout the South.

The Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole would follow the Muscogee efforts to implement Washington's new policy of civilization.

During the Revolutionary War, the Virginia House of Burgesses chose local resident and French and Indian War veteran Daniel Morgan to raise a company of militia to support General George Washington's efforts during the Siege of Boston.

The efforts of the new French Minister Edmond-Charles Genet to raise militias and privateers to attack Spanish lands and British warships, during the Citizen Genet Affair, despite Washington's pledge of neutrality turned public opinion against the French and led to the resignation of Thomas Jefferson, a longtime supporter of the French cause, as Secretary of State.

Within the discipline of historical archaeology, specifically within the United States, landscape archaeology initially gained prominence with efforts to preserve the homes and gardens of prominent North American figures ( see George Washington's Mount Vernon and Thomas Jefferson's Monticello ), the reconstruction of early colonial settlements ( see Colonial Williamsburg ) and the analysis of gardens ( see Annapolis ).

Harvey Manning describes Meeds ' work in wilderness preservation efforts in his 2007 book Wilderness Alps: Conservation and Conflict in Washington's North Cascades published by the North Cascades Conservation Council.

They left Frederick in August and marched in 21 days to report to General Washington in September to support Washington's efforts to drive the British out of Boston.

Smith was charitable to nearby historical and preservation efforts including the development of the Robert H. & Clarice Smith Auditorium at George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens, and the Robert H. and Clarice Smith Gallery at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello Visitors ' Center.

The 1939 New York World's Fair, marking the 150th anniversary of George Washington's inauguration in Federal Hall, was a high point of technological optimism, meant to mark the end of the Depression.

Washington's marriage to Martha greatly increased his property holdings and social standing, and made him one of Virginia's wealthiest men.

Stories about historic figures, such as those surrounding Pocahontas and John Smith, George Washington's childhood, or the plantation elite in the slave society of the antebellum period, have also created potent myths of state history, and have served as rationales for Virginia's ideology.

In the summer of 1779 at Washington's direction, General John Sullivan carried out a scorched earth campaign that destroyed at least 40 Iroquois villages in central and upstate New York ; the Indians were British allies who had been raiding American settlements on the frontier.

During the French and Indian War, he served in Washington's Virginia Regiment, guarding the Virginia frontier against Native American raiding parties.

Washington's proposal for a series of frontier fortifications was approved, and Lewis was promoted to major to oversee the region along the Greenbrier River.

The Convention subsequently petitioned the United States Congress for recognition of their government, but the impending conflicts of the American Civil War in the east distracted Washington's attention away from what was then a remote frontier outpost.

When the sea otter finally received federal protection in 1911, Washington's sea otter had been hunted to extinction, and although a small remnant population still existed in British Columbia, it soon died out.

As of the 2010 census, the population was 2, 266, making it the least populous in the state ; with about, it is Washington's least densely populated county.

Washington's population peaked at 1400 in 1840, after which there was a steady decline, as wool production decreased due to increasing tariffs and other factors.

By 1960 Washington's population had declined to 565.

Suburbanization and urban sprawl has plagued Spokane in past decades despite Washington's use of urban growth boundaries ; the city ranks low among major Northwest cities in population density and smart growth.

With more than 1000 Japanese then living in the Yakima Valley, the community soon became a center of Washington's Japanese population, second only to Seattle.

Although considered Washington's most common finch, the Pine Siskin has suffered a significant annual decline in population since 1966, according to the Breeding Bird Survey.

The estimated population as of 2004 was 672, 065 or about 10 % of Washington's total population.

The United States Census Bureau officially defines the metropolitan area as the Seattle – Tacoma – Bellevue, WA Metropolitan Statistical Area, with an estimated population of 3, 500, 026, which is more than half of Washington's population, making it the 15th largest Metropolitan Statistical Area in the United States.

The population of this wider region is 4, 269, 349 — almost two-thirds of Washington's population —.

Combined, the two stations serve 2. 4 million people, including almost two-thirds of Washington's population.

Washington's population is 4 % Filipino, or 252, 000, making the Filipino American community the largest Asian American subgroup and the sixth largest reported single ancestry in the state.

Most Hmong have been in the United States less than 30 years, and Washington's Hmong population is growing.

Asahel photographed Washington's natural resources and their related industries, as well as the early cities of Washington state, historic events, and its population.

The largest city would be Spokane, Washington, which is presently Washington's second largest and the greater Spokane area is the third largest population base in the northwestern US behind Seattle and Portland.

During Spellman's four-year term of office, Washington's economy suffered a serious recession marked by rising unemployment and disappointing tax revenues.

The home had suffered a small fire during George Washington's lifetime.

Electors used their second vote to cast a scattering of votes, many voting for someone besides Adams ( a carefully organized scheme originating with Alexander Hamilton ) less out of opposition to him than to prevent Adams from matching Washington's total.

Martha freed Washington's slaves less than a year after his death, on January 1, 1801.

However, under Washington's mandatory sentencing guidelines, the judge was required to sentence Blakely to no less than 49 and no more than 53 months in prison, unless he had " substantial and compelling " reasons to impose a sentence outside that range.

In 1911, Washington wrote a letter to him complaining that Carver had not followed orders to plant particular crops at the experiment station This revealed Washington's micro-management of Carver's department, which he had headed for more than 10 years by then.

Hamilton appears to have hoped in 1796 that his influence within an Adams administration would be as great or greater than in Washington's.

It is Washington's third largest officially designated American Viticultural Area ( AVA ), and is responsible for more than 40 % of the state's entire wine production.

It was one of 11 of Washington's 39 counties where Bush received a lower percentage of the vote in 2004 than in 2000.

Before 1960, the Greater King of Prussia area was known for little more than being the place of Washington's winter respite in 1777-8 ( see Valley Forge National Historical Park ).

According to one estimate more than 2, 500 German soldiers served at Yorktown with each of the British and French armies, and more than 3, 000 German-Americans were in Washington's army.

At Germantown, Greene's command, having a greater distance to march than the right wing under Sullivan, failed to arrive in good time: a failure which Greene himself thought would cost him Washington's trust.

Washington's voters are not registered by party affiliation and a voter could participate in selecting candidates for more than one party, although the voter could only choose one candidate ( of whatever party ) for each office.

In a project conducted by the University of Washington's Civil Rights and Labor History Program in 2010, it was found that more than 400 properties in Seattle suburbs alone retained discriminatory language that had once excluded racial minorities.

Although in truth, Washington's guidance to Sullivan had been that he take Ft Niagara, " if possible ," an option not easily within Sullivan's means given the limitations of his artillery ( no guns bigger than six inch field howitzers ) and his logistics.

On Washington's Olympic Peninsula, the average area of habitat patches in 8, 038 acre ( 3, 253-ha ) circles centered on pair locations was significantly ( P < 0. 01 ) larger than in circles centered on random sites.

Washington's army had dwindled to fewer than 5, 000 men fit for duty and would be significantly reduced after enlistments expired at the end of the year.

Less than a week after the British surrender, the 3rd New Hampshire set out to reinforce Washington's main army near Philadelphia.

While he waited for reinforcements to arrive so that he might march on Middlebrook, Clinton dispatched William Tryon and more than 2, 000 troops on a raiding expedition in early July against coastal communities in Connecticut, claiming in retrospect that its purpose was to draw Washington's troops further east.

Washington's suit is plain and simple, and the sword that he holds on his left side is a dress sword and not a battle sword ( symbolizing a democratic form of government, rather than a monarchy or military dictatorship ).

Spanning a period from the Spanish arrival in the Americas to George Washington's 1789 inauguration, these narratives have a more serious tone than the earlier books, are more expansive, and focus not only on well-known names but also on forgotten figures such as Hannah Duston.