Kansas Struggle over Slavery Turns Violent 堪萨斯地区为奴隶制问题而激烈的斗争 From VOA Learning English, welcome to The Making of a Nation, our weekly program of American history for people learning American English! Im Steve Ember.

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The battle is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. 这场战争比的不单是谁的力量强大,而是取决于谁能保持清醒,谁更主动以及谁更勇敢无畏。 Besides, we have no election. 除此之外,

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William: Hello and welcome to Entertainment! I'm William Kremer. Here at BBC Learning English dot com, we're running a short season of th programmes marking the 200 anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade. This significant anniversary hasn't

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407. Contrabands of War. 407.战争走私品 The war had scarcely begun before slaves escaped into the Union lines. 在奴隶逃奔到联邦阵线之前,很少有大的战役打响。 One day a Confederate officer came to Fortress Monroe and dema

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Chapter 31 第31章 Beginning of the antislavery agitation 反奴隶制运动的开始 323. Growth of Slavery in the South. 323.奴隶制在南方的发展 South of Pennsylvania and of the Ohio River slavery had increased greatly since 1787. 自178

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352. Abraham Lincoln. 352.亚伯拉罕林肯 Born in Kentucky, Abraham Lincoln went with his parents to Indiana and then to Illinois. 亚伯拉罕林肯出生在肯塔基,他和父母一起来到印第安纳,后来又去了伊利诺斯。 As a

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The law of 1850 gave the enforcement of the act to United States officials. 1850年的法律将强制执行这个法案的权力交给美国政府官员, The agents of slave owners claimed many persons as fugitives. 奴隶主代表们宣称许多人都

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As a matter of fact, I was trying to think about my career since I left the White House, and the best example I have is a cartoon in The New Yorker a couple of years ago. This little boy is looking up at his father, and he says, Daddy, when I grow up

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THE FIRST REPUBLIC OF FREE BLACK PEOPLE Discovered by Columbus in 1492, the island, or at least the western part of it now known as Haiti, was the scene of some of the most advanced political developments in the Western world in the late eighteenth

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NO VOICE , NOT HEARD Freedom fighters can be found everywhere, and they are of all times. Each age has its own s truggle for rights. Between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries the struggle was for freedom of religion. People struggled for th

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Well to me betraying the age means exposing its conceits, its foibles; its phony moral certitudes. It means telling the secrets of the age and facing harsher truths. Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children

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Study: North Korea, Eritrea Have Highest Levels of Modern Slavery The Global Slavery Index estimates that more than 40 million people around the world were subject to conditions similar to slavery. The report said North Korea and Eritrea had the high

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US History: Missouri's Request for Statehood Reopens Question of Slavery 密苏里州要求建国重开奴隶制问题 From VOA Learning English, welcome to The Making of a Nation, our weekly program of American history for people learning English. I

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Buchanan Considered One of the Worst US Presidents 布坎南被视为美国最糟糕总统 From VOA Learning English, this is The Making of a Nation. Im Kelly Jean Kelly. And Im Christopher Cruise. James Buchanan was sworn in as president in 1857. He

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Franklin Pierce Struggles to Unite Democratic Party 富兰克林.皮尔斯努力团结民主党 From VOA Learning English, welcome to The Making of a Nation, our weekly program of American history for people learning American English. Im Steve Ember.

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Southern States Form a New Nation 南方各州组成新的国家 From VOA Learning English, this is The Making of a Nation. Im Kelly Jean Kelly. And Im Christopher Cruise. South Carolina withdrew from the United States on December 20, 1860. South Car

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Chapter 36 Secession,1860-1861 第36章 南部各州脱离联邦(1860~1861年) 369. The Republican Nomination, 1860. 369.共和党的提名(1860年) Four names were especially mentioned in connection with the Republican nomination for Presi

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Chapter 37 The rising of the peoples,1861 第37章 民众的反映(1861年) 380. Lincoln's Inauguration. 380.林肯宣誓就职 On March 4, 1861, President Lincoln made his first inaugural address. 1861年3月4日,林肯总统发表首次就职

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GWEN IFILL: A recently released movie about the peculiar institution known as slavery in America is drawing attention and praise for an emotional and brutal portrayal largely unseen in Hollywood. 12 Years a Slave, directed by Steve McQueen, is based

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South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Tuesday called for a rapid resolution of the wartime sex slavery issue with Japan in her first remarks on it after meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Seoul about a week earlier. 韩国总统朴槿

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