Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: A shekara ta 1870, yawan mutanen Gundumar ya karu da kashi 75% daga ƙidayar da ta gabata zuwa kusan mazauna 132,000. Duk da ci gaban birnin, Washington har yanzu tana da hanyoyi masu datti kuma ba ta da tsabtataccen tsabtatawa. Wasu 'yan majalisa sun ba da shawarar motsa babban birnin zuwa yamma, amma Shugaba Ulysses S. Grant ya ki yin la'akari da irin wannan shawara. Majalisa ta wuce Dokar Tsarin Mulki na 1871, wanda ya soke takardun mallaka na biranen Washington da Georgetown, kuma ya kirkiro sabuwar gwamnatin yanki don dukan Gundumar Columbia. Shugaba Grant ya nada Alexander Robey Shepherd a matsayin gwamnan a 1873. Shepherd ya ba da izinin manyan ayyukan da suka sabunta Washington sosai, amma a ƙarshe ya lalata gwamnatin Gundumar. A shekara ta 1874, Majalisa ta maye gurbin gwamnatin yankin tare da Kwamitin Kwamishinoni na mambobi uku. Gidan farko na motoci na gari ya fara aiki a 1888 kuma ya haifar da ci gaba a yankunan gundumar bayan iyakokin asalin Birnin Washington. An fadada shirin birane na Washington a duk Gundumar a cikin shekarun da suka gabata. Georgetown an haɗe shi da Birnin Washington a 1895. Duk da haka, birnin yana da mummunan yanayin gidaje da kuma ayyukan jama'a. Washington ita ce birni na farko a cikin ƙasar da ta sami ayyukan sabunta birane a matsayin wani ɓangare na "City Beautiful movement" a farkon 1900s. Ƙara yawan kuɗin tarayya a sakamakon New Deal a cikin shekarun 1930 ya haifar da gina sabbin gine-ginen gwamnati, wuraren tunawa, da gidajen tarihi a Washington, kodayake shugaban Kwamitin Ƙasa na Majalisar Dattijai a kan Ƙididdigar Gundumar Ross A. Collins daga Mississippi ya ba da hujjar rage kudade don jin dadin jama'a da ilimi ga mazauna gida, yana cewa "masu zabe na ba za su tsaya ba don kashe kuɗi a kan niggers".Yaƙin Duniya na biyu ya kara yawan ayyukan gwamnati, yana ƙara yawan ma'aikatan tarayya a babban birnin; a 1950, yawan jama'ar gundumar ya kai 802,178 mazauna.  Tambaya: Waɗanne irin hanyoyi ne birnin yake da su bayan ya yi girma?
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