People
Educational Influences
Curriculum
Miscellaneous
100
This man believed the common people should be educated and we should "rake a few geniuses from the rubbish"?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
The _____________ of America led to many innovations and the expansion of education to prepare students for the changing society.
What is industrialization?
100
These were prominent areas of study. (Name at least 2)
What are reading, writing, spelling, penmanship, and arithmetic?
100
The Young Nation time period.
What is 1750-1900?
200
This man was the first secretary of education.
Who is Horace Mann?
200
Increased ____________ resulted in citizenship, history, geography, and moral development being added to the common curriculum.
What is Immigration?
200
This subject taught the art of discourse.
What is rhetoric?
200
This act gave every state 30,000 acres of land to be used for creating college campuses.
What is the Morrill Act of 1862?
300
This man founded The Academy in Philadelphia.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
300
The first state to enact an attendance law.
What is Massachusetts?
300
This subject was taught to foster occupational proficiency.
What is science?
300
The first normal school was established here in 1839.
What is Lexington, Massachusetts?
400
This educational reformer helped to increase the number of normal schools in the latter half of the 19th century.
Who is Henry Barnard?
400
This faith was integrated into most all classroom lessons in the Young Nation Period.
What is the Protestant faith?
400
This type of education was meant to train students for a specific craft or trade
What is vocational education?
400
Education became an instrument of __________ and __________ reform and improvement.
What are social and political?
500
This leader stressed the importance of acceptance and understanding of students, rather than harsh punishment.
Who is Johann Pestalozzi?
500
This was the first school that provided free education to the public based on the idea that it would strengthen America.
What is the common school?
500
These languages were taught in schools in larger towns.
What are Latin and Greek?
500
This system was created as a form of training teachers. In this system older students taught younger students and often became teachers.
What is the monitorial system?
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