Why did most education push for an extended school year and for compulsory education laws making school mandatory for all children A. To make education inclusive for everyone, not just for middle class and elite Americans
B. To allow children from rural families to spend more time planting and harvesting crops
C. To provide more time for urban children to go to work in factories
D. To help keep children out of trouble

A. To make education inclusive for everyone, not just for middle class and elite Americans

Explanation:

Compulsory education has to do with children being mandated to go to government-sponsored school for a particular period of time.

Education is a right and everyone in the society should have the privilege of enjoying one no matter the social class. Therefore, the correct option will be "to make education inclusive for everyone, not just for middle class and elite Americans".

workers of lowell mills were greatly benefited for the waltham type of work which was more a paternalist kind, trying to protect the integrity of this little girls coming from small farmers and providing an adequate place of work, this in an effort to avoid the issues of bad place conditions and immorality that the people in bigger industrialized cities of great britain were experimenting.

your answer would be (b)