Context: Prior to the one-drop rule, different states had different laws regarding color. More importantly, social acceptance often played a bigger role in how a person was perceived and how identity was construed than any law. In frontier areas, there were fewer questions about origins. The community looked at how people performed, whether they served in the militia and voted, which were the responsibilities and signs of free citizens. When questions about racial identity arose because of inheritance issues, for instance, litigation outcomes often were based on how people were accepted by neighbors.

Question: What usually played a larger role than laws regarding a person's race?
Answer: social acceptance

Question: Where did people not ask about racial background?
Answer: frontier areas

Question: What were the hallmarks of free citizens?
Answer: they served in the militia and voted

Question: Whos acceptance decided inheritance issues?
Answer: neighbors

Question: What had different laws regarding color after the one-drop rule? 
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What played the smallest role in how a person was perceived?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: In what areas were there the most questions about origins?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What was not a factor in how communities looked at people?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What was never based on how people were accepted by their neighbors?
Answer: Unanswerable