Chapter 1 The European Discovery Of America 第一章 欧洲人发现美洲 Leif Ericson discovers America in the year 1000. In our early childhood many of us learned to repeat the lines: 列夫埃里克森发现美洲(1000年)多数人在孩提时

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34. Tobacco-growing and Prosperity. 34.烟草种植与繁荣 European people were now beginning to use tobacco. Most of it came from the Spanish colonies. 从此,欧洲人开始吸食烟草,多数烟草由西班牙殖民地而来, Tobacco gre

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Chapter 8 第8章 The Colonies Under Charles II 查理二世的殖民统治 65. The Puritans and the Colonists, 16491660. 65.清教徒和殖民地(16491660年) In 1649 Charles I was executed, and for eleven years the Puritans were supreme in En

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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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409. The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863. 409.《解放奴隶宣言》(1863年) On September 23, 1862, Lincoln issued a proclamation stating that on the first day of the new year he would declare free all slaves in any portion of the United Sta

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137. Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. 137.邦克山(1775年6月17日) When the seamen on the British men-of-war waked up on the morning of June 17, the first thing they saw was a redoubt on the top of one of the Charlestown hills. 6月17日早晨,当

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240. Paying the National Debt. 240.偿还国债 Jefferson was especially anxious to cut down the expenses of the government and to pay as much as possible of the national debt. 杰斐逊急于削减政府开支以尽可能地偿还国债, Madison

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Chapter 27 第27章 New Parties and new policies,1824-1829 新党派与新政策(1824~1829年) 284. End of the Era of Good Feeling. 284.幸福时代的终结 The Era of Good Feeling came to a sudden ending in 1824. 1824年幸福时代突然终结

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311. Jackson's Specie Circular, 1836. 311.杰克森的《金属通货公告》(1836年) The first result of the removal of the deposits was very different from what Jackson had expected. 取消存款的第一个后果让杰克森始料未及。

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He sent ships and soldiers to Charleston and ordered the collector of that port to collect the duties. 杰克森派军舰和士兵到达查理斯顿并命令海关的收税员收税, He then asked Congress to give him greater power. 随后他要求国

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In these ways slavery had ceased to be a vital institution north of Maryland and Kentucky. 通过这些努力,在马里兰和肯塔基北部已经不存在有效的奴隶制机构, Why should slavery be allowed west of the Mississippi River? 为什

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274. The Hartford Convention, 1814. 274.哈特福德大会(1814年) While the New commissioners were talking over the treaty of peace, other debaters were discussing the war, at Hartford, Connecticut. 在新任外交官讨论和平条约的同时

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268. The British in the Chesapeake, 1814. 268.英国人在切萨皮克(1814年) Besides their operations on the Canadian frontier, the British tried to capture New Orleans and the cities on Chesapeake Bay. 除了在加拿大边境的活动,英国

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265. The Wasp and the Frolic,1812. 265.维斯普号与佛罗里克号(1812年) At almost the same time the American ship Wasp captured the British brig Frolic. 几乎与此同时,美国的维斯普号夺取了英国的双桅船佛罗里克号。

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For example, the Southerners were to permit the admission of California as a free state, and to consent to the abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia. 例如,南方人要允许加利福尼亚作为一个自由州加入联邦,并同

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At first people paid little attention to them. 开始时人们不太关注这些传言, But when President Polk said that gold had been found, people began to think that it must be true. 但当珀尔卡总统说找到黄金时,人们开始相信果

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356. Buchanan elected President, 1856. 356.布坎南当选为总统(1856年) The Whigs and the Know-Nothings nominated Millard Fillmore for President and said nothing about slavery. 辉格党和美国本土党提名米勒德菲尔莫尔为总统,

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The Southern leaders knew all these things. 南方人知道这些事, But they made up their minds that now the time had come to secede from the Union and to establish a Southern Confederacy. 但他们坚信已经到了脱离联邦建立南方同盟的

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395. Fredericksburg, December, 1862. 395.弗里德里克斯堡(1862年9月) Burnside found Lee strongly posted on Marye's Heights, which rise sharply behind the little town of Fredericksburg on the southern bank of the Rappahannock River. 伯恩赛

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But the Confederates fired on her, and she steamed away without landing the soldiers or the supplies. 但是,南方联盟的人向汽艇开枪,汽艇没有卸下士兵和给养就离开了。 Lincoln waited a month, hoping that the secessionists

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