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Education

Education became one of the most important ideas the US finally grasped. Schools were really first used in the US before anywhere else in the world. Schools provided education which provided futures to kids of poor immigrants who would have nothing going for them without schools. The poor immigrants could afford schools because it was free. Taxes paid for everything except lunches. Since school was free, all people took advantage of it and therefore made the newer generations much more useful to society because of their skills and new innovative ideas. Men who worked in a factory for 14 hours a day could finally know that his kids would have a bright future and make money not doing back breaking work.

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