Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Passage: Pakazosvika 1870, vagari veDunhu vakanga vakura ne75% kubva pakuverengwa kwevanhu kwakapfuura kusvika kuvagari vanenge 132 000. Pasinei zvapo nokukura kweguta racho, Washington yakanga ichine migwagwa isina kuchena uye yakanga isisina utsanana hwakakwana. Dzimwe nhengo dzeCongress dzakataura kuti dzitamisire guta guru kumadokero, asi Mutungamiri Ulysses S. Grant akaramba kufunga nezvechisarudzo chakadaro. Congress yakapfuura Organic Act ya1871, iyo yakabvisa magwaro ega ega emaguta eWashington neGeorgetown, uye yakagadzira hurumende itsva yenharaunda yeDunhu rose reColumbia. Mutungamiri Grant akagadza Alexander Robey Shepherd kuti ave gavhuna muna 1873. Shepherd akapa mvumo yezvirongwa zvikuru zvakavandudza zvikuru Washington, asi pakupedzisira zvakaparadza hurumende yeDunhu. Muna 1874, Congress yakatsiva hurumende yenharaunda neBhodi yakagadzwa yemitezo mitatu yeKomisheni. Magwagwa ekutanga emuguta akatanga kushanda muna 1888 uye akaunza kukura munzvimbo dzeDunhu kupfuura miganhu yeGuta reWashington. Gadziriro yemaguta eWashington yakawedzerwa mudunhu rose mumakumi emakore akatevera. Georgetown yakabatanidzwa zviri pamutemo neGuta reWashington muna 1895. Zvisinei, guta racho rakanga risina dzimba dzakanaka uye mabasa ehurumende akanga akaoma. Washington raiva guta rokutanga munyika kuti pasi Urban kuvandudzwa zvirongwa sechikamu "City Beautiful sangano" mukutanga 1900s. Kuwedzera mari yehurumende somugumisiro New Deal muna 1930s zvakatungamirira kuvakwa kwezvivako zvehurumende itsva, zviyeuchidzo, uye mamiziyamu muWashington, kunyange sachigaro House Subcommittee pamusoro District Appropriations Ross A. Collins kubva Mississippi akaruramisa kucheka mari kuti zvakanaka uye dzidzo kuti vagari vemo, vachiti "vagari vangu aisazomira mari pamusoro niggers".Hondo Yenyika II yakawedzera hurumende basa, achiwedzera nhamba vashandi yehurumende muguta guru; ne 1950, vanhu District wacho akasvika rayo yepamusoro 802,178 vagari.  Mubvunzo: Guta racho rakanga richine migwagwa yorudzii pashure pokukura kwaro?
migwagwa isina kuvakwa