The excerpt above expresses how the role of public education in the United States has drastically changed over the course of 100 years. During the middle of the 1800's, school was seen as a privilege to attend, not a guarantee. However, this idea changed significantly over the course of the next 100 years. By the time of the middle of the 1900's came around, attending school was seen as a normal thing to do.
This is why D is indeed correct.
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Japan moved to attack the US Navy Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor under the premise that war with the United States was inevitable, they wanted to strike first, to deliver a fatal blow to the American Navy that would impede the US from interfering in their conquests and military operations in Southeast Asia. A declaration of war was drafted, but due to delays it was delivered to the US after the attack had started on December 7, 1941. The Japanese planes inflicted terrible damage on the fleet in Hawaii, sunk several important vessels, damaged others, destroyed a hig number of aircraft and killed thousands of sailors. Nevertheless, the attack was not a full success because that day, the American carriers were not anchored at the base in Pearl Harbor, so the operation failed to achieve one of its main goals: to destroy American naval strategic capacity; the era of the aircraft carriers as the main assets of naval power had begun.
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