In the Mid-Nineteenth-Century American System of Education

In the mid-nineteenth-century American system of education,

A) most lower-class students worked as apprentices and did not attend school.
B) ninety-five percent of white southerners and 20 percent of the slaves could read and write.
C) was stronger in the North than in the South.
D) most public school teachers were men.
E) literacy was more common in the United States than in Europe.