It then made Massachusetts the most stable state or essentially the most stable state in the country and it was widely-admired.

那时，它使马萨诸塞州成为了美国最稳定的州,或者说本质上最稳定的州,并广受好评与赞赏。

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The North and the South had roughly, as the Northern and Southern states, the Free states and Slave states, had roughly the same geographic size.

北方和南方大致上,北方和南方的各州有,自由州和蓄奴州的区别,但其地理大小总体上相同

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