2014英语四级听力练习慢速英语4.24(1)_大学英语听力

2014英语四级听力练习慢速英语4.24(1)

　　The Whigs were elected with this agenda that they wanted Congress to pass, that they had promised would rescue the country from a very serious depression. And this included a new national bank, higher tariffs, distribution of federal revenues from public land sales.

　　President Tyler, he adds, frustrated the entire Whig legislative program.

　　It was clear the Whigs would not nominate him for the next election. So Tyler turned his attention to the Democrats. He hoped they would ask him to be their presidential candidate in 1844.

　　Tyler Seeks Support from Democrats

　　Tyler began appointing Democratic advisors to his cabinet. And he gave his support to one of the Democrats causes: making Texas a state in the Union.

　　Texas was an independent nation at the time. Some Americans wanted to bring Texas into the United States to further expand the country. But others were afraid that the territory would permit slavery. They wanted to keep an equal balance between slave-holding and non-slave-holding states.

　　President Tyler had the opposite fear. Michael Holt explains that Tyler was afraid that Texas would remain an independent republic and abolish slavery there.

　　He and other southerners thought that was a terrible idea. But he also believed that this is whats going to put him in the history books. Hes going to be responsible for adding this enormous republic of Texas -- although it wasnt quite as big as what they claimed -- to the United States.