What led Richard Allen and other African Americans to establish their own Protestant denomination, the African Methodist Episcopal Church?
A) They wanted to fuse together the beliefs of both the Methodist and Episcopal religions into one faith.
B) They thought having a church of their own would lend credibility to their antislavery efforts.
C) They were angered by the discrimination they faced in white-led churches.
D) They wanted to ensure a proper religious education for their children.
E) All of these choices
C
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A) the wheel B) the alphabet C) temple architecture D) military strategy
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