How did the Revolutionary war provide both new opportunities and new challenges for slaves and free blacks in America?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: In the new United States, the Revolution largely reinforced a racial identity based on skin color. Whiteness, now a national identity, denoted freedom and stood as the key to power. Blackness, more than ever before, denoted servile status. Indeed, despite their class and ethnic differences, white revolutionaries stood mostly united in their hostility to both blacks and Indians.
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A) True B) False
Between 1746 and 1769, six new ________ were created in British North America
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
What was the only Latin American nation governed by a monarchy in the nineteenth century?
a. Nicaragua b. Chile c. Peru d. Argentina e. Brazil
African Americans were able to work in all types of industry in the South
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.