alleryStart learning →Which New England colony did not follow Massachusetts in providing compulsory elementary education?
AConnecticut
BNew Hampshire
CNew Haven
DRhode Island
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Rhode Island
1. Colleges came first, with Harvard in 1636 and William and Mary near the end of that century.
2. More noteworthy still was a school system maintained by governmental authority.
3. In 1647 the Massachusetts Bay Colony provided for compulsory elementary education.
4. All the other New England colonies followed shortly, with one exception.
5. Rhode Island was the colony that did not.
6. Connecticut and New Hampshire were among those that did follow, so neither is the exception.
7. Southern plantations were too scattered for community schools of that kind at all.
_Source: An Outline of American History (U.S. Information Agency, 1990, public domain), section SCHOOLING AND CULTURE FLOURISH_
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