Who is an American?

Question

Eric Foner talks about who an American is and how the answer to that question has changed multiple times throughout history.

what are your main takeaways from this lecture and describe Foner's assertions about who is an American, and why citizenship and being an American is a contested issue?

https://kboo.fm/media/66145-who-american-eric-foner

Answer 1

Once the stain of slavery was finally abolished in 1865 after a long, hard fight, a modern American is anyone of any race, creed or color who is either born as a citizen of the USA or becomes one. You cannot claim to be a legal American without citizenship.