How did Bourbon rule impact Mississippi's education system? It benefited African American children. It drastically cut spending on education. It led to significant improvements in literacy. It decreased the length of the school year.

Read the excerpt from eighty years and more: reminiscences, 1815-1897. all that day and far into the night i pondered the problem of boyhood. i thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. so i decided to study greek and learn to manage a horse. which question would best the reader understand stanton's viewpoint in this excerpt?