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African American Citizenship Research Paper

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Until the 20th century many people were not given all the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. The rich and the caucasian men were given all of the rights, the privileges, and the responsibilities. The African American men and women were slaves or very unwealthy. The Native American men and women had already been kicked off their land. They had to stay in their small pieces of land, that didn’t have anything they started with, like rich soil to grow maize or much water from streams. The Native Americans got what the men didn’t want. Women, no matter what color, didn’t get rights either. They couldn’t vote or at one point even read. One of the reason why all these different varieties of people didn’t have freedom was because they had

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