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History of Schools in the United States MCQ

History of Schools in the United States MCQ

1. Despite history, u.s. education has emerged as the _____.

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Correct Answer: Key to a job that will lead to future success

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2. ______ citizenship for an immigrant with all the rights of a native-born citizen except for being eligible to be the president or vice president of the United States.

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Correct Answer: Naturalized

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3. Morals describe the accepted personal or cultural values and codes of conduct for behavior.

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Correct Answer: True

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4. A future event that is believed to be inevitable or cannot be avoided is called

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Correct Answer: Manifest destiny

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5. Which Laws describe the law and practices that segregated whites from blacks in the use of facilities such as water fountains, restrooms, hotels, buses, restaurants, movie theaters, and schools?

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Correct Answer: Jim Crow laws

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6. Students from different ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic groups attend the same schools and participate in the same classes and activities within the school is called

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Correct Answer: Integration

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7. Free and universal education describes public education for all children and youth.

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Correct Answer: True

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8. The amendment ratified during the Reconstruction era on July 9, 1868, to provide citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States other than American Indians and Asians. It also reaffirmed and extended the Civil Rights Act passed in 1866 and served as the foundation for Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka and other civil rights cases in the 20th and 21st centuries in fourteenth amendment

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Correct Answer: True

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9. The educational process that destroys a student’s culture and replaces it with a new culture is called

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Correct Answer: Deculturalization

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10. Eighteenth-century schools that mixed students from different socioeconomic levels in the same classes using the same curricula is called

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Correct Answer: Common Schools

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11. Schools established for poor children in urban areas prior to the common school is called

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Correct Answer: Charity schools

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12. A series of questions and answers, usually on religious doctrine is called

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Correct Answer: Catechism

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13. A return to a less complex time when the focus of schooling was simply on learning the basic subjects of reading, arithmetic, grammar, and history in a traditional way is called

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Correct Answer: Back-to-basics

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14. A form of management that requires submission to the strict rule of a teacher or another person is called

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Correct Answer: Authoritarian

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15. Women have historically been the majority of the teachers in this country.

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Correct Answer: False

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16. Separate but equal facilities were declared legal in which 1896 Supreme Court case?

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Correct Answer: Plessy v. Ferguson

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17. Literacy was a punishable crime for African Americans in the South prior to the Civil War.

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Correct Answer: True

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18. Which concern did the 1928 Meriam Report address?

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Correct Answer: Removing Native American children from their homes

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19. During the Industrial Revolution, education became more standardized in an effort to help the new immigrant populations become literate and disciplined workers.

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Correct Answer: True

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20. The National Defense Education Act was passed in response to which event?

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Correct Answer: The launching of Sputnik I

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21. The first kindergarten was established by ______.

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Correct Answer: Freidrich Froebel

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22. Advocates supported all of the following as important components of middle schools except which one?

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Correct Answer: Tracking of students

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23. Who first argued that early adolescents were neither children nor adults?

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Correct Answer: G. Stanley Hall

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24. Which of the following tracks was not an option in early 20th-century high schools?

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Correct Answer: Arts

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25. Webster’s early readers had leading characters who were primarily female and entirely secular.

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Correct Answer: False

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26. The elementary school where you teach is about to be renamed and the teachers are asked to vote on which educator should receive the honor. You vote for ______ because he influenced the elementary school curriculum in the first half of the 19th century.

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Correct Answer: Noah Webster

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27. Secular schools were focused on religious instruction.

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Correct Answer: False

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28. Colonial reading instruction focused on ______.

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Correct Answer: Religious readings

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29. Schools in colonial times were open to everyone without admission requirements.

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Correct Answer: False

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