In the First Half of the Nineteenth Century,tax-Supported Schools Were

question 28

Multiple Choice

In the first half of the nineteenth century,tax-supported schools were

• A) chiefly available to educate the children of the poor.
• B) most in evidence in the South.
• C) continuously opposed by wealthy, conservative whites.
• D) open only to tuition-paying children of the well-to-do.
• E) more academically demanding than private academies.

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