EMERGENCE OF USA
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND ITS IMPACT
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African Americans were seen as too valuable assoldiers to be enslaved people
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Loyalists had to free enslaved people as punishmentfor supporting the British
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Slavery was outlawed in the US immediately followingthe war
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The ideals of freedom and liberty led some whiteAmericans to question slavery
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Detailed explanation-1: -On December 6, 1865, eight months after the end of the Civil War, the United States adopted the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which outlawed the practice of slavery.
Detailed explanation-2: -The American Revolution had profound effects on the institution of slavery. Several thousand slaves won their freedom by serving on both sides of the War of Independence. As a result of the Revolution, a surprising number of slaves were manumitted, while thousands of others freed themselves by running away.
Detailed explanation-3: -Enslaved and free black people provided even more labor than usual for Virginia farms when 89 percent of eligible white men served in Confederate armies. Enslaved men were sometimes forced into service to build Confederate fortifications, women to serve as laundresses or cooks for troops in the field.
Detailed explanation-4: -The war began because a compromise did not exist that could solve the difference between the free and slave states regarding the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in territories that had not yet become states.