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President George Washington chose a small area of land, 10 square miles to be our nations new capitol. Virginia and Maryland donated land to help build the new capitol. The city was built along the Potomac and Anacostia rivers -
After 10 years of building congress wraps up its last meeting in Philadelphia and is ordered to officially start the move to D.C. President John Adams ordered that congress should be ready to take session again by June 15. -
During the war of 1812, Great Britain launched an attack on our nations newly constructed capitol and burn the White House to the ground. -
D.C. gets its first taste of government when congress let them establishes its democratically elected local government. This government consists of a Governor a bicameral legislature with 11 upper house members and 22 lower house members -
the 23rd amendment is officially proposed by the united states congress after senator Estes Kefauver introduced it a year earlier -
Hawaii becomes the first state to ratify the 23rd amendment just a week after it was proposed -
Our home state of Iowa becomes the 33rd state to ratify the amendment -
Ohio becomes the 38th and final state state to ratify the 23rd amendment just over 9 months from which it was proposed and officially completed the amendments ratification. -
Residents of D.C. can cast their ballots for the first time under the new 23rd amendment, the majority of the district voted for future winner Lyndon Johnson -
Possibly swayed by the recent passing of the 23rd amendment congress decided that D.C. gets to elect its own mayor from now on instead of an appointed mayor by congress.