Horace Mann was an educational reformer who lived in the US in the 19th century. He was a first to advocate a system of a public schools and public education as he believed that everyone had a right to education and that it should be free, democratic and have a professionally trained educators who would provide a quality education.
The Mayans met their demise when the Spanish conquered the Mayan with the combination of superior technology and the introduction of foreign diseases. Foreign diseases such as smallpox weakened populations and were thus easier to subdue.
He created public work programs and jobs for the unemployed.
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I only know one of them. But Japanese Americans primarily lived in Hawaii from my understanding.
