Being a self-governing state inhabited mainly by people sharing a common culture, history, and language.
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A representative democracy is where people elect other people to represent them so the answer is suffrage
War for Freedom. In the four years of the American Civil War, the United States began to redeem itself from the 250-year-long tragedy of slavery. On the battlefields of that war, and in the buildings, artifacts, documents, and stories they contain, four million African Americans won their freedom.