托福分数测试HOT
托福课程优惠HOT
托福正价课试听0元
新托福机考练习NEW
0元讲座HOT
新版托福入门课程HOT
托福入门导学NEW
4000人报
托福机经
PDF版
TPO练习
官方授权
资料下载
826套
专业测评
40118人已测
高分经验
1193帖
扫码免费领资料
内含托福全科备考资料
更有免费水平测试及备考规划
扫码关注掌握一手留学资讯
回复XDF免费水平测试
托福阅读背景知识:美国十九世纪的政治!在平时的托福阅读练习中,大家也可以多掌握一些阅读的背景知识,储备相关的内容,可以辅助我们更好地理解阅读文章。
NINETEENTH-CENTURY POLITICS IN THE UNITED STATES (OG)
The development of the modern presidency in the United States began with Andrew Jackson who swept to power in 1829 at the head of the Democratic Party and served until 1837. During his administration, he immeasurably enlarged the power of the presidency. "The President is the direct representative of the American people," he lectured the
Senate when it opposed him. "He was elected by the people, and is responsible to them." With this declaration, Jackson redefined the character of the presidential office and its relationship to the people.
During Jackson's second term, his opponents had gradually come together to form the Whig party. Whigs and Democrats held different attitudes toward the changes brought about by the market, banks, and commerce. The
Democrats tended to view society as a continuing conflict between "the people”-farmers, planters, and workers-and a set of greedy aristocrats. This "paper money aristocracy" of bankers and investors manipulated the banking system for their own profit,Democrats claimed, and sapped the nation's virtue by encouraging speculation and the desire for sudden, unearned wealth. The Democrats wanted the rewards of the market without sacrificing the features of a simple agrarian republic. They wanted the wealth that the market offered without the competitive, changing society; the complex dealing; the dominance of urban centers; and the loss of independence that came with it.
Whigs, on the other hand, were more comfortable with the market. For them, commerce and economic
development were agents of civilization. Nor did the Whigs envision any conflict in society between farmers and
workers on the one hand and businesspeople and bankers on the other. Economic growth would benefit everyone by raising national income and expanding opportunity. The government's responsibility was to provide a well-regulated economy that guaranteed opportunity for citizens of ability.
Whigs and Democrats differed not only in their attitudes toward the market but also about how active the central government should be in people's lives. Despite Andrew Jackson's inclination to be a strong President, Democrats as a rule believed in limited government.
Government's role in the economy was to promote competition by destroying monopolies' and special privileges. In keeping with this philosophy of limited government, Democrats also rejected the idea that moral beliefs were the proper sphere of government action. Religion and politics, they believed, should be kept clearly separate, and they generally opposed humanitarian legislation.
The Whigs, in contrast, viewed government power positively. They believed that it should be used to protect
individual rights and public liberty, and that it had a special role where individual effort was ineffective. By regulating the economy and competition, the government could ensure equal opportunity. Indeed, for Whigs the concept of
government promoting the general welfare went beyond the economy. In particular, Whigs in the northern sections of the United States also believed that government power should be used to foster the moral welfare of the country. They were much more likely to favor social-reform legislation and aid to education.
In some ways the social makeup of the two parties was similar. To be competitive in winning votes, Whigs and
Democrats both had to have significant support among farmers, the largest group in society, and workers. Neither party could win an election by appealing exclusively to the rich or the poor. The Whigs, however, enjoyed disproportionate strength among the business and commercial classes. Whigs appealed to planters who needed credit to finance their cotton and rice trade in the world market, to farmers who were eager to sell their surpluses, and to workers who wished to improve themselves. Democrats attracted farmers isolated from the market or uncomfortable with it,
workers alienated from the emerging industrial system, and rising entrepreneurs who wanted to break monopolies and open the economy to newcomers like themselves. The Whigs were strongest in the towns, cities, and those rural areas that were fully integrated into the market economy, whereas Democrats dominated areas of semisubsistence farming that were more isolated and languishing economically.
托福阅读 OG八: 参考译文:
精彩内容第二页继续......
资料下载
2021-2024托福机经试题|答案|范文下载
发布时间:2024-02-21关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
托福全科备考资料大礼包
发布时间:2024-02-21关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
托福正价课试听课程包
发布时间:2024-02-21关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
托福定制备考规划
发布时间:2024-02-21关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
托福TPO免费模考
发布时间:2024-02-21关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
托福免费水平测试
发布时间:2024-02-21关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
托福写作新题型模拟题+范文汇总[ETS发布]
发布时间:2023-07-30关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
2023全年托福机经PDF版下载
发布时间:2023-06-17关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
2022全年托福机经PDF版下载
发布时间:2023-06-17关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
2022全年写作托福机经整理
发布时间:2023-01-13关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
2022年托福考后题目回忆
发布时间:2023-01-13关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
托福口语黄金80题附录音
发布时间:2023-01-13关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
新东方IBT写作网络课堂录音[.rar]
发布时间:2023-01-13关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
21天托福听力提升计划
发布时间:2023-01-13关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
不怕跑题偏题,这份写作资料请收好
发布时间:2023-01-13关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
托福阅读提分技巧锦囊妙计
发布时间:2023-01-13关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
口语拖后腿?因为你缺少这套万能句式资料
发布时间:2019-11-01关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
攻破托福听力难关的资料包
发布时间:2023-01-13关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
看剧学英语,经典美剧一键获取
发布时间:2019-11-01关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
原版外刊资源合集|精心打包整理
发布时间:2019-11-01关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
关注新东方在线托福,
回复【XDF】获取大礼包
推荐阅读
更多>>托福考试网整理了2024托福考试时间、托福考试内容、托福写作新题型样题+范文、托福考题等内容,今天带来的是ETS官方托福阅读模拟题【2】,希望对同学们托福考试有所帮助!
托福考试网整理了2024托福考试时间、托福考试内容、托福写作新题型样题+范文、托福考题等内容,今天带来的是ETS官方托福阅读模拟题【1】,希望对同学们托福考试有所帮助!
托福考试网为大家整理了2024年托福阅读评分标准、托福阅读考试时间、托福阅读备考攻略等内容,今天给大家带来的是2024年1月托福考试考前刷题:阅读题(4),供大家参考!
托福考试网为大家整理了2024年托福阅读评分标准、托福阅读考试时间、托福阅读备考攻略等内容,今天给大家带来的是2024年1月托福考试考前刷题:阅读题(3),供大家参考!
托福考试网为大家整理了2024年托福阅读评分标准、托福阅读考试时间、托福阅读备考攻略等内容,今天给大家带来的是2024年1月托福考试考前刷题:阅读题(2),供大家参考!
资料下载
更多>>关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
关注新东方在线托福
回复【XDF】获取
阅读排行榜
相关内容