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How did limiting voting rights to white male landowners affect Americans in 1776

It provided opportunities for all Americans to succeed?

It allowed Americans to from an independent nation?

The promise of equality did not extend to most Americans?

Independence from British rule did not extend to most Americans?

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Nearly one-fourth of all white Southerners owned slaves, and upon their backs the economic basis of America—and much of the Atlantic world—was erected. In the seven cotton states, one-third of all white income was derived from slavery. By 1840, cotton produced by slave labor constituted 59 percent of the country's exports.

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A!

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