14 April 2010 SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. In the late eighteen hundreds, white Americans expanded their settlements in the western part of the country. They claimed land traditionall...
07 April 2010 BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. During the eighteen hundreds, the federal government forced American Indians to live on lands called reservations. No longer could the Indians mo...
31 March 2010 BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. The United States began to expand west during the middle eighteen hundreds. People settled in the great open areas of the Dakotas, Utah, Wyoming, an...
By Harold Braverman 2010-3-24 Photo: loc.gov A cowboy with his horse BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Last week, we talked about the growth of the cattle industry. This industry started in Texas...
10 March 2010 BARBARA KLEIN: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. Rutherford Hayes was sworn into office as the nineteenth president of the United States in eighteen seventy-seven. Hayes, a Republican, became...
03 March 2010 Republican Rutherford Hayes went to bed believing he had lost. Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. President Ulysses Grant served two terms in office. His administration was marked by corruption...
By David Jarmul 2010-2-3 Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. In March of eighteen sixty-eight, Congress tried to remove President Andrew Johnson from office. But the Senate failed in the effort by one vote. Andr...
By David Jarmul and Frank Beardsley 2010-1-27 Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. The Civil War ended in eighteen sixty-five. After that, tensions grew between Congress and the new president, Andrew Johnson....
By David Jarmul and Frank Beardsley 2010-1-20 Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. In the spring of eighteen sixty-five, the American Civil War was over. And the president who had led the Union during that war...
By Harold Berman and Frank Beardsley 2009-12-30 Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. On April ninth, eighteen sixty-five, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union General Ulysses Grant. Wit...
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