One of the main reasons that the Romans <span>allowed the Jews to practice their religious beliefs was because they knew that discontent regarding religion usually led to uprisings, and could damage the empire. </span>
The reconstruction period had generally good ideas which were exploited by bad people and who turned it all upside down. The idea of reconstruction was to integrate African-Americans into the society and protect their rights and enable them to educate themselves and become sophisticated and emancipated members of the society.
During the gilded age, the focus switched form social to economic reforms and because of this the reconstruction ended and many southern states reverted to their original racist ways. This is why it's called the gilded age, it only looked like everything was great but it was bad at its core, like gilded items which only look gold.
The declaration of independence was letting go of the English rule. While the bill of rights was putting a leash on the people in power.
Answer: D. Some Americans avoided the draft by leaving the country
