Context: For African Americans, the one-drop rule was a significant factor in ethnic solidarity. African Americans generally shared a common cause in society regardless of their multiracial admixture, or social/economic stratification. Additionally, African Americans found it, near, impossible to learn about their Indigenous American heritage as many family elders withheld pertinent genealogical information. Tracing the genealogy of African Americans can be a very difficult process, especially for descendants of Indigenous Americans, because African Americans who were slaves were forbidden to learn to read and write, and a majority of Indigenous Americans neither spoke English, nor read or wrote it.

Question: What brought African Americans together?
Answer: the one-drop rule

Question: Who made it next to impossible to learn about their heritage for African Americans?
Answer: family elders

Question: Slaves were not allowed to do what?
Answer: to learn to read and write

Question: What did Indigenous Americans not do that makes it difficult to trace their heritage?
Answer: spoke English, nor read or wrote it

Question: What factors did not affect racial solidarity amoung African Americans?
Answer: their multiracial admixture, or social/economic stratification

Question: What was a factor in ethnic solidarity for whites?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Who was the one-drop rule not a significant factor for? 
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Who found it easy to learn about their Indigenous American heritage?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Who was forthcoming with genealogical information?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Who was encouraged to read and write?
Answer: Unanswerable