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How has the United States legitimized racial constructs?
 
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Why has Thomas Jefferson's penning of the Declaration of Independence become controversial over the years?
 
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Answer to Question 1

definitions of citizenship; accompanying rights; restrictions/limits on freedom and access to housing, education, political participation, representation; one drop rule; Plessy v. Ferguson; Jim Crow; Black Codes; separate but equal

Answer to Question 2

endorsed view that all men are created equal via the Declaration, held a large number of slaves as he penned the verse, fathered children by one of his slaves, contradiction between political views and personal views, distinction between who was included in the phrase all men





 

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