Multiple Choice
Which of the following was the sharpest irony of the American Revolution?
A) Although fighting a war against one another, the Revolutionaries and Great Britain had almost identical laws and views on issues such as slavery.
B) Great Britain offered enslaved blacks more opportunities for freedom than the United States, a nation built on the ideas of freedom.
C) The vast majority of African Americans cared far more about the specific side for which they were fighting than their own personal freedom.
D) The decision by the British army to arm enslaved blacks did little to deter southerners from joining its cause, as the issue of slavery had been set aside during the Revolution.
E) The Patriot army failed to enlist free blacks as soldiers at any point during the war, whereas Loyalists did from the beginning.
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