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Why did the Puritans open schools in every town they settled?

so children could learn to read the Bible


so children could be taught about democracy

so children could be kept from having to work in the fields

so newcomers could learn Puritan laws

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so kids could learn how to read the bible
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so children could learn and read the bible
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