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Who Was Abraham Lincoln 林肯 Chapter 1 Life in a Log Cabin
The man who is often called Americas greatest president was born on February 12, 1809, in a crude log cabin in Kentucky. Eighteen feet long and sixteen feet wide, it had a dirt floor and no windows. LOG CABIN CABIN INTERIOR ONE ROOM PLUS A LOFT His f
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Who Was Abraham Lincoln 林肯 Chapter 2 The Wider World
Abraham Lincoln knew he didnt want to be a farmer like his father. But he didnt know what he did want to do. So when he was twenty-one, he decided to leave home and find out. He was hired to help sail flatboats loaded with supplies down the Sangamon
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Who Was Abraham Lincoln 林肯 Chapter 3 A Member of Congress
In 1837, Lincoln moved to Springfield, the new state capital. Springfield was still a frontier town with log cabins. Pigs ran loose on the dirt roads. But it was the biggest place Lincoln had ever lived in. It even had a bookstore. He worked at a fri
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Who Was Abraham Lincoln 林肯 Chapter 4 The Great Debater
What brought Lincoln back to politics was the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. For a long time, Americans had been arguing about slavery. Should it be legal? And if so, where? In 1820, Missouri had become a state. Slavery was legal there. At that time, C
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Who Was Abraham Lincoln 林肯 Chapter 5 Mr. President
Once again Lincoln asked Douglas to debate him. This time, Douglas had to accept. In 1858, seven debates were held in different towns all over Illinois. The main issue was slavery. People poured in from neighboring states to listen. The whole country
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Who Was Abraham Lincoln 林肯 Chapter 6 Civil War
Lincoln was in trouble before he even took office. The slave states hated him. Almost no one in the South had voted for him. As soon as the news came of his election, seven states seceded from the Union. They said they were no longer part of the Unit
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Who Was Abraham Lincoln 林肯 Chapter 7 The End of Slavery
As the war neared the end of its second year, more than one hundred battles had been fought, with many thousands of men wounded and killed. And still, neither side was winning. In the North, it became harder and harder to find men who were willing to
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Who Was Abraham Lincoln 林肯 Chapter 8 A Two-Minute Speech
Finally, Lincoln found a brilliant general to lead his army: Ulysses S. Grant. Grant was willing to fight. He had already won important victories, such as the Battle of Vicksburg, which gave the Union control of the Mississippi River. But Grant reali
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Who Was Abraham Lincoln 林肯 Chapter 9 The War Is Won
In 1864, Lincolns first term as president was coming to an end. There was supposed to be an election in November. But was it possible to hold an election during a civil war? Lincolns advisers suggested putting it off until the war was over. He refuse
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Who Was Abraham Lincoln 林肯 Chapter 10 Farewell to the President
John Wilkes Booth was never brought to trial. A few days after the shooting, his hiding place was discovered. He was shot to death trying to escape. Booth thought what hed done was noble and heroic. However, all over the nation, people mourned the de
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Who Was Thomas Alva Edison 爱迪生
One day the Edisons couldnt find six-year-old Al, as his family called him. They were visiting Als older sister and her husband on their farm. It was just outside of Milan, Ohio. The year was 1853. Suddenly Als uncle had an idea. He ran out to the ba
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Who Was Thomas Alva Edison 爱迪生 Chapter 1 Always Curious
Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847, on a cold snowy night in Milan, Ohio. His parents, Nancy and Samuel, named him Thomas after his great-uncle and Alva after Captain Alva Bradley, a good friend of his father. The family didnt call him
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Who Was Thomas Alva Edison 爱迪生Chapter 2 Young Inventor
Al was twelve when his father helped him get a job on the Grand Trunk Railroad. The train traveled back and forth between Port Huron and Detroit, Michigan, every day. Al was a newsboy. Along with other boys, he sold newspapers, magazines, and snacks
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Who Was Thomas Alva Edison 爱迪生Chapter 3 Tom and His “Boys”
In 1869 Tom arrived in New York without a job. But Tom had no trouble finding one. He was already known and respected as a smart young man with exciting, original ideas. He was someone who could make things. Tom had no problem finding work. After a w
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Who Was Thomas Alva Edison 爱迪生Chapter 4 His Invention Factory
In the mid 1800s, a man in France and a man in Massachusetts both came up with ways to record soundbut as a pattern on paper much the way the dots and dashes of Morse code look on paper. Nobody had figured out how to record sounds and play them back
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