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AP U.S. History Exam 2.19. According to the excerpt, how did the United States government restrict the citizenship of African Americans?
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[ musical flourish ]
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[ rimshot ] All right.
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Reading the excerpt.
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[ mumbles ]
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All right, and the question:
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According to the excerpt, how did the United States government restrict
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the citizenship of African Americans?
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And here are your potential answers.
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[ mumbles ]
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Okay.
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Writers of the Anti-Slavery Examiner
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knew they'd have to pull some jedi mind tricks
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to change people's minds about the rights of
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free African Americans in the 1800s.
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The authors emphasized America's passion for
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fair representation, pointing out that African Americans were being
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denied rights in the same way
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colonists had been denied before the Revolution.
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The force is with you, young abolitionist.
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All right, according to the excerpt, did the U.S. government
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restrict the citizenship of African Americans
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B - by restricting their property rights?
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Well, while property rights were sometimes restricted
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for African Americans, this excerpt focuses
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more on the issue of taxation -
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at the same rates as whites,
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without representation.
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So get rid of B and C.
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Could the U.S. government have restricted African American citizenship
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D - by segregating them in society?
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Well, segregation didn't become contentious until
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after the Civil War, so we're about
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20 years too early on this one.
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Which means that the U.S. government restricted the citizenship
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of African Americans A - by taking away their right to vote.
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The authors of the excerpt really hammered home that
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taxation without representation argument
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because African Americans, just like early colonists,
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were denied the right to participate in government.
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So A is the correct answer.
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These kind of arguments succeeded because they appealed
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to reason over emotion,
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helping many Americans get on board with the more, uh,
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freeing train of thought.
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