Americans tend to think of the United States as a nation where all men are created equal and share the blessings of liberty, as the Declaration of Independence declares, “all men are created equal.”
How well or not well did American society live up to that statement in the 1600s, 1700s, and the 1800s?
How did the country live up to these ideals in the period we have studied and how did it fail to live up to these ideals?