“America was founded on the foundation of equality.”
It absolutely was NOT. Black people remained mostly enslaved and the majority of Founding Fathers owned Black people. (Some would free them.) Jews were second class citizens in many states, unable to build synagogues, and in the case of Maryland, vote or hold public office. Anti-Catholic bigotry was rampant, even making it into the Declaration of Independence. Suspected heretical Christians would be persecuted in part of the US well into the 1810s. And of course women could not vote and were limited even in signing contracts. (Heretics would be elected both President and Vice President in 1824, the last official Established Church ended in 1833, slavery ended in 1865, women slowly became able to vote between 1869 and 1920, and civil rights laws offered some legal protection starting in the 1960s, but we still don’t have a fully egalitarian society.)