Author Question: Around 1800, higher education in the United States A. served about two percent of the white men ... (Read 83 times)

naturalchemist · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

Thomas Jefferson believed American Indians were primitive people

A. who might become civilized through exposure to white culture.

B. with no redemptive qualities.

C. who nevertheless had an education system worth emulating.

D. who should be completely separated from white society.

E. who had been greatly mistreated by white Americans.

Question 2

The writer Judith Sargent Murray argued that women

A. should have a role in society apart from their husbands.

B. All these answers are correct.

C. should have opportunities to earn their own livings.

D. were equal to men in intellect and potential.

E. should have the same educational opportunities as men.

Question 3

In the early nineteenth century, school education was largely the responsibility of

A. individual parents.

B. individual cities and towns.

C. the federal government.

D. the states.

E. private institutions.

Question 4

Around 1800, higher education in the United States

A. served about two percent of the white men in the country.

B. was increasingly becoming dominated by public institutions.

C. saw the number of colleges and universities growing substantially.

D. gave access to women, blacks, and Indians.

E. began to admit many more poor citizens than before.