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Has the United States lived up to its ideals of equality, opportunity, rights, and democracy from the 1860s to the 1930s? Explain your thinking.

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Without a doubt, the United States has never really lived up to the ideals of the Declaration. Historians, myself included, are quick to point out that Thomas Jefferson enslaved several hundred human beings when he crafted the Declaration.
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