Many of the most prominent education reformers of the 1820s and 1830s were
A) Whigs who believed that they could organize schools to build a new American culture that was better than the Jacksonian democracy which they thought was too individualistic and unlikely to transmit the kind of moral code essential to a well-regulated national life.
B) Jacksonian Democrats who believed they could organize schools that would promote the individualistic, freer, populist, and aggressive America that President Jackson and his supporters envisioned and advanced.
C) men because women did not take any significant interest in the moral education of children in the schools or at home.
D) Roman Catholics committed to building a public education system in local communities.
Answer: A
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