The passage provides information that would be helpful in answering the question ______.

A. why a disproportionate share of early American textbooks was written by New England authors
B. whether the Federalist Party was primarily a liberal or conservative force in early American politics
C. how many years of education the founders believe were sufficient to instruct young citizens in civic virtue
D. what the names of some of the Puritan authors who wrote early American textbooks were