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...

Examples: District of Columbia retrocession, the retrocession to Virginia, and potentially to Maryland, of the land ceded to create the District of Columbia Retrocession...

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...

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...

Mark David (Spring–Summer 2004). "The Debates over the Retrocession of the District of Columbia, 1801–2004" (PDF). Washington History: 54–82. Archived...

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...

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...

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...

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Quadrants of Washington, D.C.. District of Columbia retrocession Adam Froehlig (March 18, 2011). "How much land is...

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...

returned to the state of Virginia in 1846. See: District of Columbia retrocession ^[b] Data provided by "District of Columbia - Race and Hispanic Origin:...

Rebellion, historically known as the Southampton Insurrection, was a rebellion of enslaved Virginians that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August...

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...

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...

partnership of Franklin & Armfield to buy slaves in the Upper South: the mid-Atlantic states (Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia), where...

of Columbia Public Service Commission District of Columbia Republican Party District of Columbia retrocession District of Columbia Route 4 District of...

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...

formal approval of retrocession, occurred September 7, 1846. The circuit court, district court, and criminal court of the District of Columbia were finally...

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...

from Virginia and Maryland, 1790. District of Columbia retrocession; the return to Virginia of the District of Columbia lands which Virginia had originally...

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...

 208, 215. Rothbard, Murray (1962). The Panic of 1819: Reactions and Policies (PDF). New York: Columbia University Press. p. 12. Dangerfield 1965, pp...

presidential candidate Jo Jorgensen David Krucoff (independent), District of Columbia retrocession activist Amir Lowery (independent), former Major League Soccer...

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...

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...

The Great Dismal Swamp maroons were people who inhabited the swamplands of the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina after escaping enslavement...

list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Virginia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic...

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...

Mexican–American War declared, ch. 16, 9 Stat. 9 July 9, 1846: District of Columbia retrocession, ch. 35, 9 Stat. 35 July 30, 1846: Walker tariff, ch. 74, 9 Stat...

Supreme Court of the United States which he had not yet nominated individuals to fill. He also called for the District of Columbia retrocession, which returned...