It was important to the Puritains to learn how to read the bible and learn how to write. The Puritans believed that the individual should not be dependant on clergy, see Catholic Church at time, for knowledge of the Bible's content.
The Irish Republican Army fighting for the unification of a whole Ireland.
<span>The Fifteenth Amendment gave black men the right to vote, but Southern Democrats and the Ku Klux Klan deviously tried to keep Blacks from voting. </span>