How did the American Revolution’s rhetoric of equality, including the words of the Declaration of Independence, help highlight inequalities and become a shared aspiration for social and political movements in the nineteenth century?

How did the American Revolution’s rhetoric of equality, including the words of the Declaration of Independence, help highlight inequalities and become a shared aspiration for social and political movements in the nineteenth century? You may include (but are not limited to): abolitionists and anti-slavery movements, labor movement and the expansion of democracy, and the women’s rights movements.