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=== United States === The [[American Revolution]] (1765β1783) created the United States. The new [[Constitution of the United States|Constitution]] established a relatively strong federal national government that included an [[President of the United States|executive]], a [[Supreme Court of the United States|national judiciary]], and a bicameral [[United States Congress|Congress]] that represented states in the [[United States Senate|Senate]] and the population in the [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]].<ref name="Wood, 1992">Wood, ''The Radicalism of the American Revolution'' (1992)</ref><ref>Greene and Pole (1994) chapter 70</ref> In many fields, it was a success ideologically in the sense that a true republic was established that never had a single dictator, but [[Voting rights in the United States|voting rights]] were initially restricted to [[White Americans|white]] male property owners (about 6% of the population).<ref>{{cite web |title=Expansion of Rights and Liberties β The Right of Suffrage |url=https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/charters_of_freedom_13.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160706144856/http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/charters_of_freedom_13.html |archive-date=July 6, 2016 |access-date=April 21, 2015 |website=Online Exhibit: The Charters of Freedom |publisher=National Archives}}</ref> Slavery was not abolished in the Southern states until the constitutional [[Reconstruction Amendments|Amendments]] of the [[Reconstruction era]] following the [[American Civil War]] (1861β1865). The provision of [[Civil rights movement|Civil Rights]] for African-Americans to overcome post-Reconstruction [[Jim Crow]] segregation in the South was achieved in the 1960s.
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