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Advertisements for runaway slaves were rare in the early republic.
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Committed to freedom of conscience and thought, most patriots adopted a live-and-let-live attitude toward the Loyalists during the Revolutionary War.
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Confiscated property of Loyalists was returned to them following the Treaty of Paris.
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Except in Vermont, property ownership was not a requirement for voting in the early Republic.
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The authority of church leaders went remarkably unchallenged during the revolutionary era.
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were fewer free blacks than there had been in 1776.
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At the end of war, as many as 100,000 Loyalists were banished from the United States or emigrated voluntarily.
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Because of religious freedom, an astonishing number of new religious denominations proliferated in the early republic; today more than 1,300 religions are practiced in the United States.
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By 1776, the year in which he wrote The Declaration of Independence with its famous phrase "all men are created equal, " Thomas Jefferson owned more than 100 slaves.
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Deists and members of evangelical sects worked together to separate church and state.
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During the Revolution, Indians were divided in allegiance.
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Evangelical Christians supported the separation of church and state following the American Revolution because they wanted to protect religion from the corrupting embrace of government.
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Except for New York, all new states barred Jews from voting.
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From 1776 to 1807, some women were legally allowed to vote in New Jersey.
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Indentured servitude went into rapid decline following national independence.
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Initially, African-Americans saw the ideals of the Revolution as an opportunity to claim their freedom.
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Loyalists who did not leave the country were quickly reintegrated into American society.
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Militias did much to promote the expansion of political democracy in revolutionary America.
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Some Americans employed the revolutionary language of equality on behalf of women's rights.
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The Declaration of Independence elevated the principle of equality to a central place in the American conception of freedom.
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The years following independence saw the emergence of free black communities, especially in the northern states.
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Though it was not granted to many Americans, by 1776, most Americans considered suffrage to be synonymous with freedom.
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