In the First Half of the Nineteenth Century, Tax-Supported Schools

Multiple Choice

In the first half of the nineteenth century, tax-supported schools were  

A) chiefly available to educate the children of the poor and European immigrants.
B) most in evidence in the South.
C) uniformly and consistently opposed by upper-class white Protestant Americans.
D) open only to tuition-paying children of the well-to-do.
E) more academically demanding than private academies.