So here’s a little history lesson about Washington DC. So, back in 1783, a mob of angry soldiers besieged the Congress while they were meeting in Philadelphia. The Pennsylvania Council refused to protect the Congress from the angry soldiers who demanded payment for their service during the American Revolutionary War. So what happened? They decided to move the Congress somewhere else.

Where to? A place where the Congress does not have to rely on anybody else to deafend it. Meaning,  a place not in any state in the US, its own special district meant solely for governing. So they decided this should be somewhere along the Potomac River, where President Washington decides. They named this self governing area District of Columbia after Christopher Columbus and they named the city in honor of President Washington – Washington.

And that’s how a mob of angry soldiers started the making of  the capital of the greatest nation on earth, the United States of America.