This law kept slavery out of the northern part of the territory which the United States bought from France.

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that by our frame of government, the states which have slavery are to retain it, or surrender it at their own pleasure;

VOA: special.2009.02.09

She studied pain management efforts in the United States, which she said were better than those of Britain.

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But Lincoln was the leading force behind the Thirteenth Amendment which officially ended slavery in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

The Burma Road was a major route by which the United States was supplying China with munitions as part of the Lend-Lease Act.

VOA: special.2011.05.26

What really transformed the United States was the process by which four million slaves were freed that necessitated a recrafting of our Constitution."

VOA: special.2011.04.09

The meat came in containers with "U.S." written on them, which was short for the United States.

VOA: special.2009.09.25

Sholeh wants to know which religions have the most followers in the United States, including Islam.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

They said colonial policies violated important democratic ideas upon which the United States had been built.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

The company is mostly owned by the United States government which has invested billions of dollars.

VOA: special.2009.10.09

Dean Still is the director of the group which is based in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

It was his job to decide which ones to send to the United States.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

In nineteen thirty, she became the first woman in the United States to get a pilot's license to fly a glider, which does not have an engine.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

The resolution said simply that the people of South Carolina were ending the agreement of seventeen eighty-eight in which the state had approved the Constitution of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.07.16