The Enlightenment had a major impact on the political and social ideologies of the colonists in the British colonies prior to the American Revolution. Notions of democracy, natural rights, and other philosophies related to revolution and governance were prominent in the colonies and helped to foment revolution there.
After the American Civil War and the subsequent abolition of slavery in the 1860s, the Reconstruction Amendments to the United States Constitution granted emancipation and constitutional rights of citizenship to all African Americans, most of whom had recently been enslaved.
They mummified people who had the money. :)
