23 June 2010 Federal troops in Chicago battle strikers at the Pullman factory in 1894 STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. This week in our series, Maurice Joyce and Frank Oliver continue the stor...
16 June 2010 BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to the MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. In March of eighteen eighty-nine, Grover Cleveland left the White House after four years as president. He had been defeated by Benjamin Harrison.s...
The first troops enter Homestead, Pennsylvania, to end the strike at the Carnegie Company 09 June 2010 BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to the MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Eighteen ninety-two was a presidential election year in the...
02 June 2010 A political cartoon criticizing the power of Standard Oil FAITH LAPIDUS: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. The eighteen eighties were years of important change in American business and industry...
FAITH LAPIDUS: Welcome to the MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. In the presidential election of eighteen eighty-eight, one issue that played a major part was tariffs. At that time, import taxes were high on many products. Th...
19 May 2010 BARBARA KLEIN: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. In our last program, we told you how the flow of immigration to the United States began to change in the eighteen eighties. Before then, most of the...
12 May 2010 Horse-drawn wagons and electric trolley cars share the streets in 1897 Philadelphia during a time of revolutionary change in transportation and industry Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. In our...
05 May 2010 Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. Grover Cleveland was elected president of the United States in eighteen eighty-four. He was the first Democratic Party candidate to win a presidential election...
28 April 2010 SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. President James Garfield was shot and seriously wounded in the summer of eighteen eighty-one. The man who shot him said he supported the politi...
21 April 2010 Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. In eighteen eighty, President Rutherford Hayes completed four successful years in the White House. He did not want to serve another term. Hayes was a Republican....
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