The success of the public schools in the post-Civil War era is ...

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The success of the public schools in the post-Civil War era is best evidenced by
 
  a. the large numbers of students graduating from them.
  b. the decline of the popularity of parochial and religiously affiliated schools among the New Immigrants.
  c. the falling illiteracy rate to just over 10 percent by 1900.
  d. the large numbers of average Americans going on to attend college.
  e. the movement of men into the teaching profession.

Question 2

Thomas Jefferson ceased his opposition to the expansion of the navy when the
 
  a. the strategic usefulness of employing significant numbers of agile coastal naval crafts became apparent in the U.S. Navy's defeat of the Barbary Coast pirates during the Tripolitian War.
  b. U.S. Marine Corps was established.
  c. mosquito fleet was defeated by the pirates at Tripoli.
  d. army was disbanded.
  e. British blockaded the east coast.

[tjayeee]

Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

a

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