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.
C. The Iran Hostage Crisis
Germany had the urge to split its region between the Protestants in the north and the Catholics in the south because of the rising conflicts in these religious factions at the time of the "Age of Reformation." The continuous tensions between these two factions could rattle the political structure of Germany.
