C. Kush was the group of people that broke free of Egyptian rule, who later established the city of Meroe along the Nile River.
After French assistance helped the Continental Army force the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781, the Americans had effectively won their independence, though fighting would not formally end until 1783.
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They were for c.kept a lot of african americans from voting