The United States is known for its acceptance of all religions and races because it is a free country. While we know it as a country with basic freedoms of speech, press, and religion as affirmed in the founding documents, it is only in the last century these freedoms have been expanded to include African Americans. It is unfortunate that when the United States was founded, slavery was acceptable among the nations of the world. …showed first 75 words of 2059 total…

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