General educational history
Describe what education was like in the US prior to 1790
taught at home; dame schools; grammar schools for wealthier White boys
What was school like for enslaved people?
When did women teachers become prominent?
After the Civil War, during westward expansion
Where was Horace Mann the secretary of education?
Massachusetts
Describe what going on with schooling in the US 1790-1830
Common school movement! Movement to install tax-supported, free, freely available public schools
When did slavery end?
Several right answers, including:
End of the Civil War
With the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863
On Juneteenth (June 19, 1865) when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, TX, and told the last remaining enslaved people that they were free
On December 6, 1865, when the 13th Amendment was ratified
What did White girls learn in school prior to 1790?
Many of them: Nothing. Some of them: A little reading, writing and math, in dame schools. A few might have received private tutoring.
What were the Bible Riots? When did they occur?
Philadelphia, 1843
Describe what was happening with education in the US 1830-1865
Common school movement was still going on; struggles over religion in schools
What education did Jefferson think was needed for enslaved people?
None.
What education did Jefferson believe was appropriate for wealthy White girls?
Just enough to be good wives and mothers
When was the first court case about desegregation?
Massachusetts, 1849
Why did towns in the American west build schools 1877-1900?
To attract people to their towns
What was education like for Black people in the south immediately after the Civil War?
"An entire race trying to go to school"--Booker T. Washington. Other acceptable answers: Very poor conditions; people providing educations for themselves.
What was life like for the women teachers who headed west after the Civil War?
Who said “"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be"?
Jefferson
Where did the earliest public schools originate?
New England, 1600s--some towns there had tax-supported school systems
What was education like for free northern Black people prior to the Civil War?
There were organized schools in some cities, but they were often segregated
What was Catherine Beecher’s motivation for advocating for women teachers?
Overt motivation: To provide a cheap source of teachers during the westward expansion. Covert: To create a profession for women comparable to law and medicine for men.
Who said “An entire race trying to go to school”? About what?
Booker T. Washington