Founding Fathers

Name: Founding Fathers
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Supported Devices: Mobile

Updated: May 18,2019

Size: 3.36 MB

Age: Everyone

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Description: The Founding Fathers – voices for a new world App is a collection of American historical documents and speeches from 1775 to 1865 that can be listened to and read in over 35 languages.

This educational App is designed to help learn about American history and the ideas and processes that lead to the establishment of the United States of America. It includes the full text of the top fourteen American speeches and documents from the early American experience all of which can be read and listened to in the students own language. The American historical documents and speeches include:

Speeches:
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
Resignation of George Washington
Washington's Farewell Address
Choctaw Chief's Speech to the American People
Lincoln's House Divided Speech
Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

Documents:
The Declaration of Independence
Articles of Confederation
Constitution of the United States
Bill of Rights and Amendments
The Star Spangled Banner
The Emancipation Proclamation

The paid-for App allows the user at any time, without the use of an internet connection, the ability to retrieve and read all of the text to the documents and speeches in any of the offered languages. It also allows the Apps text-to-speech translation module to communicate via Wi-Fi with Microsoft’s Bing translation engine located in the cloud and retrieve up to 18 selected languages to be listened to.

The languages offered include: Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan*, Chinese (Simplified) *, Chinese (Traditional) *, Czech, Danish*, Dutch*, English*, Estonian, Finnish*, French*, German*, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian*, Japanese*, Korean*, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian*, Polish*, Portuguese*, Persian, Romanian, Russian*, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish*, Swedish*, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.

Note: *reading / listening.; MoreLess