Americans Offered Growing Support for a Free Public Education System

question 68

Multiple Choice

Americans offered growing support for a free public education system

• A) to combat the growing strength of Catholic parochial schools.
• B) when the Chautauqua movement began to decline.
• C) because they accepted the idea that a free government cannot function without educated citizens.
• D) when private schools began to fold.
• E) because they were universally horrified by child labor abuses.

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