The white Americans didn't want the slaves to learn how to read and write because if they did the slaves would've read the bible and knew that it was about them.
They would've known that Africa was the motherland and that they were the first people on earth and that they were worth more than the white Americans told them. The white Americans wanted to control the slaves and keep them in fear of them that's why they beat them every time they caught a slave trying to read it. Even when the slave pastors would try to have church the white Americans would tell them what to preach and if they didn't do as they said the white Americans would beat them or even kill them.
(1) leading independence movements is your answer, I'm pretty sure.
D.) Methods used by the catholic church to enforce religious discipline and fight heresy
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The United States finally decided to join the World War I on side of the Allies mainly because of the following 2 reasons:
* The first one was the proposal made to Mexico in order to join the war against the allies, which meant the war was getting closer to American land.
* The second one was the German submarine attacks on American merchant ships.
After these two events took place, Woodrow Wilson the American president at the time talked to the Congress and requested it to declare war on Germany. And finally the Congress declared the war on April 6th, 1917.
