Question

What movement emphasized that civil responsibility and morality needed to be taught in order to have an effective democracy?

Question 23 options:

women's equality


public education


abolitionism


temperance

Answer 1

The public education movement emphasized that civil responsibility and morality needed to be taught in order to have an effective democracy.

Horace Mann, who started the common school movement in Massachusetts, believed that universal public education was the best way to turn the nation's children into judicious republican citizens.