He said slavery had not tied the states of the Union together, but had always been an issue that divided them.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

But this is different. It involves the war, the ownership of human beings and the future of the divided nation.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

In every state, the Democrats were divided between those who supported the administration and those opposed to it.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

One northerner wrote: "It was said hundreds of years ago that a house divided against itself cannot stand.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

Dispensary owners are divided on Proposition 19 -- the ballot measure that would legalize marijuana in California.

VOA: special.2010.10.11

This did not happen. The Dred Scott decision did not calm the storm that divided the nation.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

He gave a famous speech at the Berlin Wall that divided Soviet-controlled East Germany from West Germany.

VOA: special.2011.02.06

But the report noted that opinion is divided about who should get credit for the recovery.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

The settlement must protect China's territorial rights so it would not be divided into foreign colonies.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

In the eighteen nineties, the American people were deeply divided over the nation's money system.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

A poll by Quinnipiac University in Connecticut found Americans equally divided about his first year.

VOA: special.2010.01.23

Opinion studies in recent days show the public is generally divided on the new law.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

At the heart of the issues that divided the South from the North was slavery.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

In the nineteen fifties the United States was still very much divided between racial lines.

VOA: special.2010.04.11