The impact was that it led to freedom for million enslaved Americans also it laid the foundation for America's emergence as a world power in the 20th century and established a more powerful and centralized federal government
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FULL ANSWER<span>In the early to mid-1800s, education was still a fairly rudimentary experience. Children of all ages were taught in a common school room, and older and more experienced students were expected to help teach the younger ones. Age grading was first introduced in the 1840s, and by the end of the century, the students in each grade had their own distinct lesson plans and were expected to learn particular skills during the school year.
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Are you referring to the theme of the story or the movie? Either way the main theme I would say is to never give up hope and be brave.
According to the quotation from Booker T. Washington's 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech.
<span>In the great leap from slavery to freedom . . . the masses of us are to live by the production of our hands . . . we shall prosper . . . as we learn to dignify and glorify common labor.
</span>Washington believed that <span>hard work had its own kind of dignity.</span>