首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
In 1784,five years before he became president of the United States,George Washington,52,was nearly toothless. So he hired a dent
In 1784,five years before he became president of the United States,George Washington,52,was nearly toothless. So he hired a dent
admin
2013-01-22
80
问题
In 1784,five years before he became president of the United States,George Washington,52,was nearly toothless. So he hired a dentist to transplant nine teeth into his jaw—having extracted them from the mouths of his slaves.
That’s far different image from the cherry-tree-chopping George most people remember from their history books. But recently,many historians have begun to focus on the roles slavery played in the lives of the founding generation. They have been spurred in part by DNA evidence made available in 1998,which almost certainly proved Thomas Jefferson had fathered at least one child with his slave Sally Hemings. And only over the past 30 years have scholars examined history from the bottom up. Works of several historians reveal the moral compromises made by the nation’s early leaders and the fragile nature of the country’s infancy. More significantly,they argue that many of the Founding Fathers knew slavery was wrong and yet most did little to fight it.
More than anything,the historians say,the founders were hampered by the culture of their time. While Washington and Jefferson privately expressed distaste for slavery,they also understood that it was part of the political and economic bedrock of the country they helped to create.
For one thing,the South could not afford to part with its slaves. Owning slaves was "like having a large bank account," says Wiencek,author of An Imperfect God-. George Washington, His Slaves,and the Creation of America. The southern states would not have signed the Constitution without protections for the "peculiar institution," including a clause that counted a slave as three fifths of a man for purposes of congressional representation.
And the statesmen’ s political lives depended on slavery. The three-fifths formula handed Jefferson his narrow victory in the presidential election of 1800 by inflating the votes of the southern states in the Elec-toral College. Once in off ice, Jefferson extended slavery with the Louisiana Purchase in 1803; the new land was carved into 13 states,including three slave states.
Still,Jefferson freed Hemings’s children-though not Hemings herself or his approximately 150 other slaves. Washington,who had begun to believe that all men were created equal after observing the bravery of the black soldiers during the Revolutionary War,overcame the strong opposition of his relatives to grant his slaves their freedom in his will. Only a decade earlier,such an act would have required legislative approval in Virginia.
What do we learn about Thomas Jefferson?
选项
A、His political view changed his attitude towards slavery.
B、His status as a father made him free the child slaves.
C、His attitude towards slavery was complex.
D、His affair with a slave stained his prestige.
答案
C
解析
第二段中讲述了Jefferson本人没有废除奴隶制,并且还和自己的女奴隶有私生子等等。说明Jefferson对于奴隶制的观点是不确定的、复杂的。故正确答案为C。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/Q91O777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
Whatwecallnatureis,_______,thesumofthechangesmadebyallthevariouscreaturesandnaturalforcesintheirintricate
Mybossinsistsonseeingeverythingin____beforehemakesadecision.
In1984,PresidentRonaldReaganproposedthattheUnitedStatesconstructalaunchlaboratoryforaneweraofspaceexploratio
Ifthereisonethingscientistshavetohear,itisthatthegameisover.Raisedonthebeliefofanendlessvoyageofdiscove
Ifthereisonethingscientistshavetohear,itisthatthegameisover.Raisedonthebeliefofanendlessvoyageofdiscove
Inordertopreventstressfrombeingsetupinthemetal,expansionjointsarefittedwhich_______thestressbyallowingthepi
Themostthoroughlystudiedinthehistory,ofthenewworldaretheministersandpoliticalleadersofseventeenth-centuryNew
_______alwaysexistsbetweenthetheoreticaldeductionandtheresultofexperimentation.
Whatoursocietysuffersfrommosttodayistheabsenceofconsensusaboutwhatitandlifeinitoughttobe;suchconsensusca
Thesymphonyconcertshereare________bythemunicipalgovernment
随机试题
使用双核素法行SPECT心肌灌注显像,静息时注射201Tl111MBq(3mCi),15分钟显像,第60分钟行负荷试验,再次注射99mTc-MIBI的剂量以及合适的显像时间是
不符合病毒性心肌炎体征的是
领取房屋权属证书,权利人应按()缴纳印花税。
[2008年,第58题]图4.9-8所示质量为m的三角形物块,其倾斜角为θ,可在光滑的水平地面上运动。质量为m的矩形物块又沿斜面运动。两块间也是光滑的。该系统的动力学特征(动量、动量矩、机械能)有守恒情形的数量为()。
金陵三叉是指以下哪三个菜?()
现象一:有的学生学习遇到困难,悲观失望,学习不理想,认为自己笨,努力学习但成绩不好,自行惭愧,自卑,上课总是低头不与老师交流,下课也不与同学交流,总是认为自己“低人一等”。现象二:有的学生认为,现在无论如何好赖都会有个大学上。就抱着得过且过的态度,上课注
Windows98内置的某个多媒体软件组成提供了一套API函数,利用这些函数可以编写出许多高性能的实时多媒体应用程序(如游戏软件),而无需深入了解机器板卡的硬件特性。这个多媒体软件组件是______。
Nowadaysmanyscientistsdependonradiocarbonfordatingage-oldobjects.Radarisusedtodeterminethecharacteristicsofra
TherecentsocialandeconomicchangesintheU.S.havegreatimpactonalltheAmericanhousingsystem.
TheU.S.dollarwassupposedtobeattheendofitsrope.KickingthebucketAdyingsymbolofadyingempire.Well,maybenot
最新回复
(
0
)