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nummyann

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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.

Question 2

Thomas Jefferson's first major foreign-policy decision in 1803 was to
 
  a. purchase Louisiana from France.
  b. send a naval squadron to the Mediterranean to end the blackmailing and plundering of U.S. merchant ships by the Barbary pirates of North Africa.
  c. drive the British out of the northwest forts.
  d. purchase Florida from Spain.
  e. form an alliance with Spain.



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Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

b



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