Before the American Civil War, during slavery times, there was a series of anti-literacy laws that prohibited slaves from learning how to write or read. Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, North and South Carolina, and Virginia passed anti-literacy laws, some of them punished the person who attempted to teach slaves to read and write a fine of 100 pounds and 6 months in prison.
Because of that, once slavery was over and Reconstruction created the Freedmen Bureau, former slaves wanted to read and write and be a part of society.
Answer:
B. supporting laws that punished people for criticizing the
Explanation:
The correct answer is Slaves
Slaves were a big thing in Florida and a lot of people owned them with the amount of slaves per capita being much higher than in other southern states. This was a problem for Floridians because they often feared that slaves could rebel and they also feared that liberating them would ruin them politically and socially.
I believe the correct answer is the Coercive Acts. Hope it helps
