If you were a white male Protestant the USA of 1900 was a totally free country. It was a Victorian world where it was taken for granted that power was to be exercised by the "right sort". It was a world where respect for authority was so unquestioning that wave after wave of men threw themselves into the machine guns for "honor".
"If you were a white male Protestant the USA of 1900 was a totally free country."
Seems you have difficulty with white christian males? Where does this dislike come from?
In other words, you're being a troll, having decided on an unreasonable standard that you know no human society has ever approached. Give me some examples of what you consider a free society - if you consider any society anywhere, ever, to be free.
America is exceptional. You may not agree with that, but it's true, and we have demonstrated that time and time and time again.