In 1776, when the colonists declared their independence and formed the United States, 500,000 enslaved people lived in the new nation, comprising one-fifth of the total population of the United States. 10,000 of the new nation's inhabitants were enslaved people, which was 4 percent of the total population. the enslaved population was at its peak in American history and would decline rapidly in the decades ahead. all enslaved people became free.

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these are the geographical features of the gupta empire.

1)it inherited the land owned by the mauryan empire.

2)one obvious difference between the two empires is that the gupta empire was smaller that the mauryan.

3)the gupta empire is located in the northern region of the subcontinent underneath the himalayan and hindu kush mountains.

the gupta empire, marked by extensive inventions and discoveries that contributed to hindu culture, in subjects such as science, technology, engineering, art, dialectic, literature, logic, mathematics, astronomy, religion, and philosophy.

this period was also known as the golden age of india

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