The example of tendency perception that is being shown above is the self serving bias. It is a way of people uses this method in order to maintain one's worth or abilities in a manner that would suffice the person. It could be seen above as Amy denied the fact that she was speeding because she tries to maintain her image as she just told her friend to be careful of speeding. That is why she denied it.
There were a lot of factors, mostly being based around education and emancipation, but also religion. People either educated themselves and started realizing how wrong slavery is and that African Americans aren't actually different, but rather the same as us, or they were motivated by religious beliefs that all people were created by god to be equals and that slavery is against god.
It’s would be 8 because six years would identify the statehood