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Advances: The freeing of the slaves through the Thirteenth Amendment, the giving of citizenship to African Americans through the Fourteenth Amendment, and the protection of voting rights through the Fifteenth Amendment
Setbacks: The black codes restricted
People such as John Locke, (who the colonists looked up into his writing), believed that people were born with natural rights, such as life, liberty, and property. The colonists in America believed similar, and got inspiration from what John Locke wrote in a book.
I believe the third answer is the correct one
It allowed you to understand what people and what things were like back then it also allows you to feel and experience what was going on through the time period your studying.
One of the thing that African rulers performed in exchange for loyalty from their people was to let some local rulers to keep their power.
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