<span>What percentage of white Southerners were slaveholders in 1830?
your answer is about 26%</span>
The reason why sociologists say that <u>race is a social</u> construction is because what it means to be "white", "black", "Latino", "Asian", etc., is defined according to culture, time and the place. The meanings of these categories are changed over time. However, what does not change is that the racial groups are placed in a hierarchy, with white people or with lighter skin in the upper part; people of non-indigenous color subjected to people with lighter skin; Black and indigenous people in the lower part of the racial system. race is an externally imposed social category. Unlike ethnicity, which describes both aspects of ancestry as well as culture and personal identification, race is ascribed by society.
Referring to this excerpt: <span>"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.
I believe the answer is:
</span><span>Many years ago people came together to form a nation, and now a war takes place there
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The first two sentence of the excerpt Tell the story about how the united states was intially formed by the founding father. It also mentioned the story about how the effort of the founding father was almost wasted due to the civil war that take place in the country.
