With the growth of public schools in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,
a. more immigrants were able to apply for and achieve U.S. citizenship.
b. every state passed laws requiring that children attend school through grade 12.
c. private school attendance dropped dramatically.
d. black and white students were taught in the same schools nationwide.
e. rates of illiteracy dropped from 20 to just over 10 percent.
e
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A. receive specialized instruction in a general education classroom B. receive inferior instruction in a general education classroom C. be removed from the classroom to receive intensive, personalized instruction D. be placed in a separate, segregated classroom
Discuss the problems of housing and sanitation in American cities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and explain and evaluate the responses of private citizens and state and local governments to these problems.
What will be an ideal response?
How did James Watt and Matthew Boulton advertise their new engine to manufacturers worried about its cost?
a) They sold their engine kit relatively cheaply in return for a percentage of what the manufacturer would save when using the device. b) They took out the first modern ads in newspapers throughout the Midlands. Consider This: Watt and Boulton already were known by engineers such as John Wilkinson. See 7.2: New Problems, New Solutions. c) They built an engine to power the royal fountains at Windsor Castle and invited the aristocracy to view it in action. Consider This: Watt and Boulton already were known by engineers such as John Wilkinson. See 7.2: New Problems, New Solutions. c) They sold shares in their company to interested manufacturers and gave them discounts on any engines they subsequently bought. Consider This: Watt and Boulton already were known by engineers such as John Wilkinson. See 7.2: New Problems, New Solutions.
The federal government's rumored plan to confiscate the lands of the plantation owners and distribute the land among the freed slaves was called
A. the Grapevine Telegraph. B. Radical Reconstruction. C. the Jubilee Insurrection. D. the Christmas Jubilee.