How Did the Revolutionary War Change the Meaning of Freedom

question 14

Multiple Choice

How did the Revolutionary War change the meaning of freedom?

• A) It meant that all men now had a legal claim to an equal distribution of property.
• B) It challenged the inequality that had been fundamental to the colonial social order.
• C) It ended colonial society's legally established hereditary aristocracy.
• D) It ended coverture, under which husbands exercised full legal authority over their wives.

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