____ were the first to use the term "white" to describe a racial group in the area that is now the United States.
A) Europeans when they colonized the United States
B) Native Americans when they first encountered white people
C) Slave owners in the eighteenth century
D) Africans in the eighteenth century when they were brought to the U.S.
E) Historians writing in the nineteenth century

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Europeans, upon colonizing what is now the United States, were among the first to use racial terminology, including the term "white" to describe themselves in contrast to the indigenous peoples and later, Africans brought through the transatlantic slave trade. This categorization was part of a broader system of racial classification that emerged during the period of European colonial expansion.

____ Were the First to Use the Term "White" to Describe