They'd see that Americans without land and then women and then the descendants of slaves had secured voting rights. They'd see that our science and technology propelled human knowledge to unimaginable heights. And that Those 13 colonies had grown into a superpower that defeated the Nazis and Communists. They'd see a pluralist democracy, people of all colors, descended from every point on earth, stitched together out of many nations into one. (28:59–29:04)
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Asserts that the original 13 American colonies grew into a superpower that defeated Nazis and Communists.
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