Ⅰ 杰弗逊,林肯,华盛顿总统简介
杰弗逊 (Thomas Jefferson,1743--1826)
(1801年3月4日--1809年3月3日 任美国总统)
绰号:"人民的人".
出生于1743年4月13日,在沙德韦尔里弗吉尼亚.死于1826年7月4日,Monticello(弗吉尼亚附近)
托马斯·杰弗逊是美国独立革命运动的一位积极领导者和组织者,着名的美国《独立宣言》的起草人.他前后从事政治活动近六十年之
久,在美国人民的心目中是一位伟大的英雄
杰弗逊的墓碑上刻着:"托马斯·杰弗逊美国《独立宣言》和弗吉尼亚宗教自由法的执笔人弗吉尼亚大学之父安葬于此".
资产阶级民主派代表人物,共和党创始人。1773年创办弗吉尼亚的“通讯委员会”,宣传殖民地独立的思想。拥护天赋人权说,提出以革命反抗暴君。主张自由发展小农经济,反对奴隶制和议会选举中的财产资格限制。为大陆会议代表,参与起草《独立宣言》。曾任弗吉尼亚州州长、驻法公使、国务卿、副总统。总统任内,从法国购买路易斯安那,使美国国境扩张到与墨西哥接壤;推行“西渐政策”,颁布禁止输入黑奴的法令。晚年创立弗吉尼亚大学。
托马斯·杰弗逊 第一个死于贫困的是第三任美国总统托马斯·杰弗逊(Thomas Jefferson).他出身贵族家庭,属于富有阶层.后于1809年3月4日离任,死于1826年7月4日.巧合的是,他竟然与他的前任,政敌约翰·亚当斯(John Adams)几乎同时离开人世,虽然后来他们的私人关系已经和好.杰弗逊的墓碑上刻着:"托马斯·杰弗逊美国《独立宣言》和弗吉尼亚宗教自由法的执笔人弗吉尼亚大学之父安葬于此".
杰弗逊8年的总统生涯,使他欠下了巨额债务,不得不另举债偿还以离开白宫.离开白宫之后,抵达蒙蒂塞洛.虽然拥有几间小作坊,和一个小农场,但入不敷出,尽管忍痛卖掉一些土地还债,仍然还有几乎5万美元的债务.于是还债就成为困扰这位离任总统的难解之结.他的大女儿与他一起生活,在给父亲的信中,玛霞写道:"我什么都可以忍受,就是不想看到你年纪这么大还要为债务而烦忧".
1812年,英国人入侵焚烧了国会图书馆.杰弗逊将自己价值5万美元的藏书,以23500美元的低价卖给国会,偿还了将近一半的债务.尽管手头.在他的积极游说之下,州议会批准每年支付15000美元以资办学.杰弗逊到处募捐用于建校.1825年3月7日,大学开学,尽管只有30名学生.
杰弗逊终于因为贫困兼之过度劳累而病倒,当杰弗逊经济极其困难的消息传拮据,他却从1816年起,以全部身心投入筹建弗吉尼亚大学的运作之中开之后,美国各地为之捐款16000美元,但这并不足以偿还他的债务并解决他的医疗费用.6月24日,他写下生平最后一封亲笔信,抱歉地推辞掉华盛顿纪念《独立宣言》五十周年纪念活动,他终于满足了活到7月4日的最后愿望,中午12时50分,离开人世,享年73岁.几个小时之后,另一位《独立宣言》起草人杰弗逊的前任总统亚当斯也撒手人寰.
林肯
1809年2月12日,阿伯拉罕·林肯出生在肯塔基州哈丁县一个伐木工人的家庭,迫于生计,他先后干过店员、村邮务员、测量员和劈栅栏木条等多种工作。1834年,他当选为伊利诺斯州议员,才开始了他的政治生涯。
当时,美国奴隶制猖獗,1854年南部奴隶主竟派遣一批暴徒拥入堪萨斯州、用武力强制推行奴隶制度,引起了堪萨斯内战。这一事件激起了林肯的斗争热情,他明确地宣布了他要“为争取自由和废除奴隶制而斗争”的政治主张。1860年他当选为总统。南方奴隶主对林肯的政治主张是清楚的,他们当然不愿坐以待毙。1861年,南部7个州的代表脱离联邦,宣布独立,自组“南部联盟”,并于4月12日开始向联邦军队发起攻击,内战爆发初期,联邦军队一再失利。1862年9月22日,林肯宣布了亲自起草的具有伟大历史意义的文献——《解放黑奴宣言》草案(即后来的《解放宣言》),从此战争形势才开始发生了明显的变化,北部军队很快地由防御转入了进攻,1865年终于获得了彻底的胜利。
此时,林肯在美国人民中的声望已愈来愈高了,1864年,林肯再度当选为总统。但不幸的是,1865年4月14日晚,他在华盛顿福特剧院观剧时突然遭到枪击,次日清晨与世长辞。
革命导师马克思高度地评价林肯说,他是一个“不会被困难所吓倒,不会为成功所迷惑的人,他不屈不挠地迈向自己的伟大目标,而从不轻举妄动,他稳步向前,而从不倒退;……总之,他是一位达到了伟大境界而仍然保持自己优良品质的罕有的人物”。
人物姓名:乔治·华盛顿
历史上最有影响的100人 政治家
乔治·华盛顿1732年生于美国弗吉尼亚的威克弗尔德庄园。他是一位富有的种植园主之子,二十岁时继承了一笔可观的财产。1753年到1758年期间华盛顿在军中服役,积极参加了法国人同印第安人之间的战争,从而获得了军事经验和威望;1758年解甲回到弗吉尼亚,不久便与一位带有四个孩子的富孀——玛莎·丹德利居·卡斯蒂斯结了婚(他没有亲生子女)。
华盛顿在随后的十五年中经营自己的家产,表现出了非凡的才能,1774年他被选为弗吉尼亚的一位代表去参加第一届大陆会议时,就已经成为美国殖民地中最大的富翁之一了。华盛顿不是一位主张独立的先驱者,但是1775年6月的第二届大陆会议(他是一位代表)却一致推选他来统率大陆部队。他军事经验丰富,家产万贯,闻名遐迩;他外貌英俊,体魄健壮(身高6英尺2时),指挥才能卓越,尤其他那坚韧不拔的性格使他成为统帅的理所当然的人选。在整个战争期间,他忠诚效劳,分文不取,廉洁奉公,堪称楷模。
华盛顿于1775年6月开始统率大陆军队,到1797年3月第二届总统任期期满,他的最有意义的贡献就是在这期间取得的。1799年12月在弗吉尼亚的温恩山,他在家中病逝。
首先,他在美国独立战争中是一位成功的军事领袖。但事实上他决非是一位军事天才,当然也决不能与亚历山大和凯撒一类的将军相提并论。他的成功至少有一半是由于同他对垒的英军将领的出人意料的无能,另一半才是由于他自己的才能。但是应记住几位其他美国将领均遭惨败,而华盛顿虽说打了几个小败仗而最终却赢得了战争的胜利。
其次,华盛顿是立宪会议主席。虽然他的思想对美国宪法的形成没有起重要的作用,但是他的支持者和他的名望对各州批准这部宪法却起了重大的作用。当时有一股强大的力量在反对新宪法,要不是华盛顿的影响,很难说这部宪法能实行得了。
再其次,华盛顿是美国第一任总统。美国有一位华盛顿这样德才兼备的人作为第一任总统是幸运的。翻开南美和非洲各国的历史,我们可以看到即使是一个以民主宪法为伊始的新国家,堕落成为军事专制国家也是易如反掌。华盛顿是一位坚定的领袖,他保持了国家的统一,但是却无永远把持政权的野心,既不想做国王,又不想当独裁者。他开创了主动让权的先例——一个至今美国仍然奉行的先例。
与当时的其他美国领袖如托马斯·杰弗逊、詹姆斯·麦迪逊、亚历山大·汉密尔顿等相比,乔治·华盛顿缺乏创新的精神和深刻的思想。但是他比所有这些雄才大略的人物都重要得多,无论在战争还是和平期间,他在行政领导方面都起着至关重要的作用,没有他任何政治运动都不会达到目的。对美国的形成,麦迪逊的贡献是重大的,而华盛顿的贡献几乎可以说是不可缺少的。
乔治·华盛顿在本册中的位置在很大程度上取决于人们怎样认识他给美国所带来的历史意义。要求一个当今的美国人对那种历史意义做出不偏不倚的评价自然是困难的。
虽然美国在二十世纪中叶具有甚至比鼎盛时期的罗马帝国还要大的军事力量和政治影响,但是其政权也许不会象罗马帝国那样行之久远。另一方面,美国所取得的技术成就有几项将来也会被其他民族视为有重大意义的,这一点看来是有目共睹的。例如飞机的发明和人类在月球上的登陆就代表了过去世世代代人们梦寐以求的成果;很难想象核武器的发明将来会被看成是无足轻重的成就。
既然乔治·华盛顿大体上可以和罗马的奥古斯都·凯撒相媲美,在本册中把他与奥古斯都排得很接近似乎不无道理。如果说把华盛顿排得略低了一点儿,那主要是因为他比奥古斯都领导的时间要短得多,还有许多其他人如托马斯·杰弗逊和詹姆斯·麦迪逊对美国的形成也起了重要的作用。但是华盛顿比亚历山大大帝和拿破仑这样的人物排得高些,因为他的功劳比起他们的来说是更加不可磨灭的。
独立宣言
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
In Congress, July 4, 1776,
THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE THIRTEEN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to the m shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to rece them under absolute Des potism, it is their right, it is their ty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws of Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands .
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introcing the same absolute rule into t hese Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the Lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the H ead of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and sett lement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf t o the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Bri tain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. An d for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
JOHN HANCOCK, President
Attested, CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary
New Hampshire: JOSIAH BARTLETT, WILLIAM WHIPPLE, MATTHEW THORNTON
Massachusetts-Bay: SAMUEL ADAMS, JOHN ADAMS, ROBERT TREAT PAINE, ELBRIDGE GERRY
Rhode Island: STEPHEN HOPKINS, WILLIAM ELLERY
Connecticut: ROGER SHERMAN, SAMUEL HUNTINGTON, WILLIAM WILLIAMS, OLIVER WOLCOTT
Georgia: BUTTON GWINNETT, LYMAN HALL, GEO. WALTON
Maryland: SAMUEL CHASE, WILLIAM PACA, THOMAS STONE, CHARLES CARROLL OF CARROLLTON
Virginia: GEORGE WYTHE, RICHARD HENRY LEE, THOMAS JEFFERSON, BENJAMIN HARRISON, THOMAS NELSON, JR., FRANCIS LIGHTFOOT LEE, CARTER BRAXTON.
New York: WILLIAM FLOYD, PHILIP LIVINGSTON, FRANCIS LEWIS, LEWIS MORRIS
Pennsylvania: ROBERT MORRIS, BENJAMIN RUSH, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, JOHN MORTON, GEORGE CLYMER, JAMES SMITH, GEORGE TAYLOR, JAMES WILSON, GEORGE ROSS
Delaware: CAESAR RODNEY, GEORGE READ, THOMAS M'KEAN
North Carolina: WILLIAM HOOPER, JOSEPH HEWES, JOHN PENN
South Carolina: EDWARD RUTLEDGE, THOMAS HEYWARD, JR., THOMAS LYNCH, JR., ARTHUR MIDDLETON
New Jersey: RICHARD STOCKTON, JOHN WITHERSPOON, FRANCIS HOPKINS, JOHN HART, ABRAHAM CLARK
Pennsylvania: Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware: Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Maryland: Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia: George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina: William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina: Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton.
Ⅱ 丘吉尔作为英国总统还曾经获得过诺贝尔文学奖,他是怎么做到的
我认为学过历史的我们都知道丘吉尔这个人,他是一位非常伟大的总统,带领自己的国家一步一步的走向繁荣,他出身于英国着名的斯宾塞家族,当过随军记者,还成功越过狱。正是因为他所经历的,才能铸就他成为了一名伟大的总统,并且获得诺贝尔文学奖。而且据网络上面说,丘吉尔这个人是长得非常帅的,颜值非常高,据说在那个年代有很多喜欢他的小女孩。
瑞典文学院在授予他诺贝尔文学奖的颁奖词中说:“丘吉尔在政治上和文学上的成就如此之大,此前从未有过一位领袖人物能两样兼备而且如此杰出。”由此可见一个人能够获得莫大的成功,还是离不开自身的默默努力。
Ⅲ 英国前任总统是谁
英国没有总统,只有首相
Ⅳ 丘吉尔的铁幕演说,为什么说是成为美苏冷战的导火线
因为丘吉尔的铁幕演说,将苏联描绘成即将高压统一中欧,东欧的超级大国,引起了美国政府的警惕,随后便发生了持续四十五年之久的美苏冷战。
二战胜利后,英国前任首相丘吉尔应美国总统杜鲁门之邀,前去美国做客。在总统的陪同下,到达丘吉尔位于密苏里州富尔顿的母校发表演讲。这个演讲名为“和平砥柱”,演讲中,丘吉尔公开攻击苏联,宣称一幅横贯欧洲大陆的铁幕已经开始降落。苏联开始对东欧,中欧部分国家开始了高压统治。为了世界的和平未来,美英国家应该联合起来,遏制苏联的扩张行为。
英国的这般做法其实美苏都看在眼里,但是无法阻拦。因为战后两极之间必定会产生矛盾,这是不可避免的。丘吉尔正是看出美苏冷战不可避免,才跳出来,将事情挑明,逼迫两国正式开启冷战。
如此可见,铁幕演讲将两国矛盾放在明面上,加速了冷战的发起,成为冷战导火索。
Ⅳ 冈比亚的前总统贾梅在位20年,他都说过哪些口出狂言的话
冈比亚的前总统贾梅在位二十年,无论是对苏联,对美国,对欧盟,对中国,对联合国他都有放过狠话。但是到乞今为止他放出来的话从来没有实现过的。反而是冈比亚无论是经济实力还是政治实力都是越来越差。并且冈比亚的人民也是对这一位前总统非常的不喜欢。
在1995年,因为存在贸易争端等问题,冈比亚放出狠话:将派遣军队横扫整个欧洲大陆。随后英国、法国、德国、意大利联合以人权问题为由制裁冈比亚。2002年,冈比亚威胁“如若美国不放弃制裁,冈比亚将组成远征军踏平北美大陆”,美国随后降低了与冈比亚的外交级别。
Ⅵ 感恩节彩蛋的起源
感恩节彩蛋的起源
在国外很多地方,每年春分过后,第一次月圆后的第一个星期日就是“复活节”。许
多西方人小时候会在当天玩一种找彩蛋的游戏,而彩蛋里面也会藏一些小礼物,找到彩蛋
的人会很兴奋,所以彩蛋是“复活节”最典型的象征,代表了惊喜与另藏玄机。
英国大部分节日都起源于宗教。复活节发生在过了春分月圆后的第一个星期日,原是
纪念西亚异教神明巴力的同父异母妹妹亚斯塔路降生的日子,亚斯塔路也是巴力的情妇。
相传巴力得知妹妹亚斯塔路生于一枚天鹅蛋中,就去灌木中寻找;找到了,就抱在怀里孵
化出了一只兔子;兔子长大后成了一个美女,和巴力同居,后来在巴力危难之际还救过巴
力一命。英语单词复活节easter的词源就是亚斯塔路。
复活节有不少传统的庆祝活动,彩蛋就是复活节最典型的象征。它象征着活力与生
机。用彩蛋庆祝复活节的风俗与传统已经延续了几个世纪。古时人们常把蛋视为多子多孙
和复活的象征.因为它孕育着新的生命。后来基督教徒又赋予蛋以新的涵义,认为它是耶
稣墓的象征,未来的生命就是从其中挣脱而出世。
Ⅶ 世界各国的前任总统是谁
美国前任总统布什
德国总统科勒
俄罗斯前任总统叶利钦
伊朗前任总统哈塔米
法国前人总统密特朗
Ⅷ 怎样评价里根总统
里根的确是美国一位传奇总统。他是当选时年龄最大而且最长寿的总统;他也打破了“凡在双十年当选的总统必丧生于任上”的死亡宿命。他没有学过经济专业,却创立了“里根经济学”。笔者驻美期间,美国人特别是共和党人谈起里根大都赞美有加,认为他是美国“标志性人物”。按中国的传统道德标准,应该为“死者讳”,但实事求是,全面评价里根才对得起历史,对得起后人。
(8)英国前任总统说了什么让世扩展阅读:
不同人眼中的里根
里根去世后,一位俄国资深历史学者指出,俄国人对里根的看法是矛盾的,人们认为里根是“一位不太好打交道的人”。只有前苏联总统戈尔巴乔夫称里根是一位“伟大的总统”。他对里根先生的逝世感到非常悲伤。
基辛格在其《大外交》 一书中曾多次提到里根,其中有这样一段话:“里根的表现令人咋舌,无懈可击。就学术界观察家而言,则几乎是不可理解。里根对历史几乎一无所知,而他所知道的一小部分,也被他东挪西借,支持他坚定的偏见。当你和里根谈话时,有时会想到:为什么有人认为他应该当州长,甚至是总统。但是,身为历史学家,必须说明的是,这样一位才智平庸的人何以能主宰加州八年,之后又主宰白宫政务。”
和布什一样,里根在阿拉伯世界也不得人心。里根极端亲以色列。1983年,贝鲁特美军营地发生自杀式袭击,造成241名美军丧生,震动美国朝野。里根不得不把美国海军陆战队撤出了贝鲁特。他去世后,以色列总理沙龙的办公室发表的声明说,里根总统是以色列的朋友。他当政期间,以色列同美国的关系建立在相互理解与合作的基础之上。