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I had literally just read that, but would be damned if i was gonna giv it to him,, well it couldnt be called dist of Colombia if it was a territory could it? Sounds like he needs to do another semester or two of Jags school of dot connecting

Suckers who cant read or reason cant Connect the Dots.

So you do see it.

As of 1801 it could, as K22 and I both posted, because as of 1801 it was actually the District of Columbia.

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You are a good sport even if you didn't attend public school

i dont kno what public school you went to but dont be crowing about the date u think u an k22 agree on.. his is right1871 and yours is wrong1801. If you read it it plainly says before 1871 it was a territory.. how can it be called dist of col wen it didnt become a dist till 1871... thats SOME of yall problem you MIGHT read somthing but dont grasp it

For those who have opened minds I've posted when Washington became Washington D.C. This information comes from History.com
I took the liberty of spacing the quotations of when the district was renamed.

Before Washington, D.C., became America’s capital in 1800, the Congress met in a number of different locations, including Baltimore, Trenton and New York City. After years of debate by the new nation’s leaders about the selection of a permanent seat of government, Congress passed the Residence Act in July 1790, which declared that the capital would be situated somewhere along the Potomac River and granted President George Washington the power to choose the final site. The president also was given the authority to appoint three commissioners to oversee the federal city’s development, and a deadline of December 1800 was established for the completion of a legislative hall for Congress and residence for the chief executive.

In January 1791, George Washington announced his choice for the federal district: 100 square miles of land ceded by Maryland and Virginia (in 1846, the Virginia land was returned to the state, shrinking the district by a third). In September 1791, the commissioners named the federal city in honor of Washington and dubbed the district in which it was located the Territory of Columbia. The name Columbia, derived from explorer Christopher Columbus, was used during the American Revolution era as a patriotic reference for the United States (In 1871, the Territory of Columbia officially was renamed District of Columbia.) Meanwhile, in the spring of 1791, the president hired French-born architect and engineer Pierre Charles L’Enfant to lay out the capital city. L’Enfant, who served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, created a design that featured wide avenues and open spaces; however, he clashed with George Washington’s commissioners as well as local landowners and was forced to resign from the project after less than a year. L’Enfant’s design was revised by later planners.

Congress met in Washington for the first time in November 1800 (the man for whom the city was named had died in December of the previous year), and in February 1801 the District of Columbia, which at the time also included the cities of Alexandria and Georgetown, was placed under the control of Congress. Today, America’s capital city has more than 650,000 residents, and they’re represented by a non-voting delegate in the U.S. House of Representatives. The 23rd Amendment gave citizens of D.C. the right to vote for president, starting in 1964, and since 1974 Washingtonians have elected their own mayor and city council.

Before then it was called Washington. Once it is renamed it will be known throughout history as Washington DC all the way from founding to date

Plum dum You are a true dipsh1t,, you do this preaching when its you that aint getting it,, 3rd paragraph down,, in parentheses is PLAINLY says (in 1871 the TERRITORY of colombia was RENAMED DISTRICT of colombia),, I wont ask you admit it , you plainly cant, this is why people jump your sh1t all the time,, you dont see what you think or want to see, then try to argue and pontificate about how wrong what you do read is,, So shut the FuQ up about it You are exposed ,, everybody see it, and slip into the dark like the cur you are,, I am done cluttering the thread with your stupid sh1t, ask your dumbass questions to a stump from here on out,, You are just like one of those "reporters " on CNN, you sling crap on the wall and pray for a gotcha,,, Next up will be whining about my spelling , or lack of abbreviation points,,so let me stop that now by telling you to suck kiss my hanging participle and my colon,,,