Benjamin Franklin
Designed and opened this in 1751.
What is the Philadelphia Academy
The best way to preserve liberty was the education of this group of people.
Who is Sarah Pierce?
American textbooks first started printing after this.
What is the Revolutionary War?
Started a school for African Americans in 1770.
Who is Anthony Benezet?
Focused on this type of curriculum in schools
What is to orderly government?
This is the school started by Sarah Pierce.
What is the Litchfield Female Academy?
Textbooks were initially used to promote democratic ideals and independence from this country.
What is England?
Native and Mexican Americans usually were educated by these usually religious figures.
What are missionaries?
Franklin's new academy replaced this type of school.
"For society to remain free, it must support a continuous system of _________."
What is public education?
The Litchfield Female Academy was located in this state.
What is Connecticut?
The best sellers "The Elementary Spelling Book" and "The American Dictionary" were penned by this person.
Most enslaved African Americans usually learned from these sources.
What are their masters and church services?
Though academies were mostly privately funded, secular and _________ aspects also were used.
What is publically funded?
Unsuccessfully proposed this bill in 1779.
What is the Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge?
The mission statement of the Litchfield Academy states that a woman's place is this less exalted and brilliant place.
What is the home?
The affectionate name given to Noah Webster's dictionary.
This group of people saw slavery as a "moral evil" and started schools to educate them during the Revolutionary period.
What are Quakers?
These are three of the many subjects taught at Franklin's school.
(any three of:)
English grammar, composition, and literature
Classical and modern foreign languages
Science
Writing and drawing
Rhetoric and oratory
Geography
Various kinds of history
Agriculture and gardening
Arithmetic and accounting
mechanics
Jefferson's plan for education adhered to a curriculum more based on this style.
What is academic?
These establishments started educating women in the 19th century for more high level positions outside the home.
What are female seminaries?
Webster's dictionary also exemplified how students should behave here.
What is school?
Anthony Benezet started the first African American school in this city.
What is Philadelphia?