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In the United States before the Civil War, it was illegal to teach a slave to read or write.
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- In the southern states where slavery was legal and most white families owned slaves, it was illegal to educate a slave to become literate.
- The act of teaching a slave was unanimously criminalized by all the southern states because the leaders of these states feared the idea of slave getting educated and revolting against them.
- The states had laws in place to punish the one who tried to educate slaves.
Direct Democracy just means that your vote isn't represented by someone else, which would be indirect democracy (like how we have representatives that vote for us in congress). Since you are voting for something in the group "directly" that would be an example of direct democracy.
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Is the agreement between two or more countries to come in contact with business with each others