What is now the U. S. Was owned by in the 1700s. People living here began to get upset by that they thought were unfair. We broke away with the , which was ironic because the main author owned many slaves. Later, the new formed a new government under the that was they plan for the government. Unfortunately, the Constitution allowed to continue. In 1831, a Frenchman named visited the U. S. One of the things he wrote about was the concept of , which is a economic policy by the government. By the 1860s, the issue of slavery caused the and the to fight in the . After the north won, the U. S. Made laws to protect the rights of persons of color. Some of these were the amendment, which ended slavery, the amendment, which granted citizenship to former slaves; and the amendment, which allowed black males the right to vote. Unfortunately, real advances in would have to wait until much later.