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Richmond 's economy is primarily driven by law, finance, and government with several notable legal and banking firms, as well as federal, state, and local governmental agencies, located in the downtown area. Richmond is one of twelve cities in the United States to be home to a Federal Reserve Bank. There are also nine Fortune five hundred, and thirteen Fortune one thousand companies, in the city. Richmond is also home to several smaller companies which contribute to its small town, friendly, southern atmosphere, such as Ukrop's Super Market, a regional, family-owned chain of supermarkets. In 1seventeen seventy-five, Patrick Henry delivered his famous, "Give me Liberty or Give me Death," speech in St. John's Church in Richmond that was crucial for deciding Virginia's participation in the First Continental Congress and setting the course for revolution and independence. Thomas Jefferson, who would soon write the Declaration of Independence, and George Washington, who would soon command the Continental Army, were in attendance at this critical moment on the path to the American Revolution. On April eighteenth, seventeen eighty, as Virginia's population moves further west, the state capital was moved from the colonial capital of Williamsburg to Richmond, to provide a more centralized location for commerce, as well as to isolate the capital from British attack. In seventeen eighty-one, under the command of Benedict Arnold, Richmond was burned by British troops causing Governor Thomas Jefferson to flee the city. Yet Richmond shortly recovered and, by seventeen eighty-two, Richmond was once again a thriving city. In seventeen eighty-six, one of the most important and influential passages of legislation in American history was passed at the temporary state capital in Richmond , the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. Written by Thomas Jefferson and sponsored by James Madison, the statute was the basis for the separation of church and state, and led to freedom of religion for all Americans as protected in the religion clause in the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment. Its importance is recognized annually by the President of The United States, with January sixteenth established as National Religious Freedom Day.
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