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1777 and 1804 all states north of Maryland got rid of slavery.
1776: were fewer than 10,000 free.
1810: were nearly 200,00 free.

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Thomas Jefferson wrote that "All men were created equal" but still he held slaves and had kids with one of them .

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Ideas of liberty even though they were really different. James Otis who wrote "Unless America´s slaves were free there could be no liberty"

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North: paid labor
South: slavery
Before Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1793, the South had slavery on decline.

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Beginning of true religious freedom.
"Wall of separation"

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There were more voters than there had been although there were mostly white and male.

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100,000 slaves have fled to the British, many were returned to their masters but 15,000 left U.S

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The war didn´t end slavery, it didn´t much change roles of women and it didn´t displace the elite, lang-owning white guy leadership.

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Deborah Sampson dressed up as a man and fought at several battles and pulling a bullet out of her leg.

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Indians weren´t include in the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

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American troops were brutal to American Indians who fought for the British, burning their villages and enslaving prisoners.

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Rations were poor and soldiers went unpaid, some only fought with the British not for independence.

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Recognized equal rights of daughters and widows.

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America made sure there would never be a formal nobility.

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Equality: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal" they didn´t include woman (they couldn´t vote) and 30% were slaves and sell as property clearly that´s not equality.

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Property rights: gave the government no power to tax that caused the people who had property still being able to keep it before and after the revolution.

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The colonist threw off the rule of an imperial monarchy and replaced it with a government that didn´t have a king.

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Americans came to view themselves as equal to each other.