cotton gin
about this same time.
Native Americans:
Like women and black people, Native Americans were not allowed to vote in the first hundred years of the
United States government. John Adams was surprised to find that, because the Declaration of Independence said
all men were created equal, even "Indians slighted their Guardians and Negroes grew insolent to their Masters."
(
see the letter here
) The Constitution (Article I, section 2) says that "Indians not taxed" should not even be
counted in the census at all. The men who wrote the Constitution thought that Native Americans belonged to
their own group, and were not part of the United States at all: they were not American citizens. Native American
men did not get the right to vote until 1889, and then only if they left their tribes and lived like white men. It was
1924 before tribal Indians could vote.
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