美国南北战争英文介绍 (课堂PPT)

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2.Territorial crisis(领土危机)
Between 1803 and 1854, the United States achieved a vast expansion of territory through purchase, negotiation, and conquest. At first, the new states carved out of these territories entering the union were apportioned equally between slave and free states. It was over territories west of the Mississippi that the proslavery and antislavery forces collided.
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奴隶制已经从早期在英国美国殖民时期(殖民时代),和当时在所有13个殖民地法律 在1776年的《独立宣言》。
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It lasted in about half the states until 1865, when it was prohibited nationally by the Thirteenth Amendment.
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• The war broke out in April 1861, when secessionist forces（反对势 力） attacked Fort Sumter（萨姆特 堡） in South Carolina, shortly after United States President Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated. The loyalists of the Union in the North proclaimed support for the Constitution（宪法）. They faced secessionists of the Confederate States（同盟国） in the South, who advocated for states‘ rights to uphold slavery（奴隶制）.
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Introduction
The American Civil War was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.The Civil War is the most studied and written about episode in U.S. rgely as a result of the long-standing controversy over the enslavement(奴役) of black people.
直到1865年，它一直持续到大约一半的州，直到第十三修正案在全国范围内 被禁止。
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Slavery in the United States
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Causes of secession
1.Slavery Slavery was a major cause of disunion. Southern whites believed that the emancipation of slaves would destroy the South‘s economy, due to the large amount of capital invested in slaves and fears of integrating the ex-slave black population.
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3.Lincoln’s election（林肯的当选）
The election of Abraham Lincoln in November 1860 was the final trigger for secession.
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Lincoln’s Introduction
• Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 -- April 15, 1865), republican, American statesman, thinker, strategist, abolitionist of black slavery. The 16th President of the United States, his presidency, the United States civil war, known as the civil war, Lincoln firmly opposed to the nation divided. He abolished slavery in the rebellious states, and enacted the homestead act and the emancipation proclamation. Lincoln defeated the secessionists in the south and defended the United States of America and its territories as equal to all human beings. Shortly after the end of the civil war, Lincoln was assassinated, the first President of the United States, and the first republican President, repeatedly rated the greatest President. The front of the latest $5 bill is a photo of Abraham Lincoln
• 在美国，奴隶制是人类的动产，主要是非洲人和非裔美国 人，在18世纪和19世纪存在于美利坚合众国。
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Slavery had been practiced in British America from early colonial days（殖民时代）, and was legal in all Thirteen Colonies at the time of the Declaration of Independence in
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• Slavery in the United States was the legal institution of human chattel enslavement, primarily of Africans and African Americans, that existed in the United States of America in the 18th and 19th centuries.