The Sons of Liberty was a secret organization that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies to advance the rights of the European colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. ... More likely, the name was an underground term for any men resisting new Crown taxes and laws.
753 BC: Founding of Rome. 650 BC: The Etruscan kings begin to rule Rome. 509 BC: Tarquinius Superbus, the last king of Rome, is driven out and the Roman Republic is formed, with officials now being elected. 496 BC: Battle of Lake Regulus – the Romans defeat the Latins and force the Latins to sign a treaty.
The correct answer is C) Racial attitudes and policies had been a part of American life for a long time and were not going to change easily.
Before slavery was made illegal thanks to the 13th amendment, there was a long history of racial segregation and racial superiority in America. From the first slaves (brought over during the early 1600's) to the end of the Civil War, many Americans were taught that African-Americans were inferior. Thanks to the Supreme Court case Dred Scott vs. Sandford, enslaved Africans were even considered property at one point in American history.
This long history of painting African-Americans as inferior was not going to change overnight. Rather, many southererns kept these types of views and passed them on from generation to generation.
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