2013年高考英语 阅读理解与完型填空 美国内战中的奴隶.docVIP

2013年高考英语阅读理解与完型填空：美国内战中的奴隶The American civil war had a deep e~Fibet on the livbs of slaves. It finallyresulted in the abolition of slavery. Slaves first arrived.in Amerjca in Virginiain 1619. The Underground Railway was a method for northemers to helpescaped slaves to find a place to live in free states or Canada. Free blackAfflericatjs were usually the ones to plan and helped with the UndergroundRamt,ad.孵 -is believed about 50,000 t0 100,000 people used theUnclerground Railroad to escape to their freedom.????? .????? Slavery was not the single cause of the Civil war. The many differencesarising from the slavery issue caused the Southern States to secede(分离).? Abraham Lincoln was elected as president of the United States in 1860. Lincoln and his Republican ptuty had the goal of only stopping the expansion of slavery not abolishing it. White Southemers? didrtt believe Lincolns promise to protect slavery where it ex:isted. South Carolina had declared it? would secede from the Union if Abraham Lincoln was elected, and -it did so in December 1861. It?? was followed shortly by thb other lower South states- of Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,? Texas and Florida. In February 1861, a month before Lincoln took office, these states formed a.new nation, the Confederate States of America. After Lincolns call for volunteers to hold back the?? rebellion and the firing on Fort Sumter, the other slave states of V,irginia, North Carol.ina, Tennessee,? and Arkansais joined the Confederacy. The border slave states of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and? Missouri remained in the Union.???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? .???????? {.?????? The North went to war to preserve the American Union, and the White South.went,,to war for?? independence so that it might protect slavery.? Initially the Northem .fpal in the war was.~e speedy? restoration of the Union under the Constitution and the laws of 1861, all of which recogniz6d silavery? as lawfi