Answer:
New England
Explanation:
In the 1800s, New England provided free elementary education through its various states. This was hugely influential for education activists and informed much of the larger education reforms of the early 1900s.
Answer: The battle took place in Manila Bay in the Philippines, and was the first major engagement of the Spanish–American War.
Explanation:
After the Civil War, during the Reconstruction era, most of the freedmen in the South went back to work in the cotton fields as a way of sustenance. However, since they were already free, the Radical Republicans in Congress thought of a way to make former slaves free-holding farmers. This resulted in the vast majority of freedmen becoming tenant farmers. Thus, <em>tenancy</em> and <em>sharecropping</em> became fundamental in the southern Reconstruction process.
