,. We are in a building that is built in the 17 thirties, about 40 years before theres any such thing as the United States of america. At that time pennsylvania was a british colony. This was its Capital Building. They would make laws for pennsylvania and each of the 13 colonies has its own government. These are the issues in a lot of ways that will lead to the creation of the United States, most of which will happen in this room, because the colonies, as time goes forward will start to grow dissatisfied with the way the British Government is treating them, is affecting their lives locally. One of the other side issues is americans living in the colonies do not get to vote in british elections. When the parliament in london makes laws for americans, the most famous being various taxes you learned about in school, we will say this is taxation without representation. It is that idea you are not getting the voice. Thomas jefferson would write that government existing with the consent of t
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We have to oppose the extension of the savory slavery. The immigrant societies formed in the north. They would give money to fund immigrants. They did something comparable. They have an advantage because kansas territory was right next to missouri as a slave state. And the missourians the board into kansas and they would destroy the free state settlement. The idea was to make kansas unfriendly. This is where john brown comes in. By this time almost as committed to the antislavery cause. Theyre not initially can it take up arms. They said bob you bobby should come join us. He is increasingly distressed at the failure of the to actually frustrate the proslavery courses. They seem to be rolling right over physically over the antislavery side. He needs to take strong action to send a message to the pro slavery side. They descend on aim proslavery settlement and they drag five men close savory slavery settlers and just outside the cabins where they are living there right off into the night.
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Im David Rubenstein coming from the library of congress, the Jefferson Building and its part of our National Book festival and have a pleasure of interviewing richard hoss who is the president of a foreign relation and ive written a new eczema book called the world a brief introduction by richard hoss, thank you very much for coming today. Great to be with you. For those of you that dont know your background, i want to talk a little bit about the bo book, you are native of new york and went to college in ohio and became a Rhodes Scholar, what did you do to become a Rhodes Scholar and for those of you who are not aware there is only 32 people picked every year in the Rhodes Scholar and youre one of the top 32 students, what did you do to be one of the top 32 students when you graduated. My children would claim it was an administrative error i did nothing to confuse the scholarship, i could also answer i was one of 32 people who peaked young and peaked at the right time, my own guess i h