The Spread of Public Education Between the 1880s and 1900

The spread of public education between the 1880s and 1900 reflected the desire:

A) to stop the proliferation of religious (namely Catholic and Jewish) schools
B) to Americanize immigrant children
C) to educate former slaves
D) to give southern children the broader context of a story about Republican ideology in the North
E) of college administrators to have better-prepared students