Common Schools

question 9

Multiple Choice

Common schools

• A) had no connection to the emerging industrial economy.
• B) were based on the idea that the elite should be educated in their own schools.
• C) were opposed by labor unions that wanted children available to work.
• D) existed in every northern state by the time of the Civil War.
• E) proved as popular in the North as they were in the South.

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