Groups
Who established the first school that welcomed all, regardless of race or religion.
Quakers
Someone who learns a skilled trade by watching and helping an expert in that trade.
Apprenticeship
Worked without pay in exchange for learning
Apprenticeship
Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island
New England colonies
What restrictions did teachers have?
Teachers could not drink, smoke, date, or marry.
Who believed that religious education was most important and viewed schools as a way to teach young children about the Bible and to teach basic skills such as farming.
Puritans
A religious group from England that settled in Philadelphia, believed that all should be educated and tolerated other religious beliefs.
Quakers
What law did Massachusetts pass in 1642?
A law that required every town to have a school.
Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina South Carolina, and Georgia
Southern Colonies
What were teachers required to do?
Regular church attendance and participation in civic events. They had to be honest, routinely clean the school, and perform charitable acts like visiting the sick.
Europeans were freshly in
America
The basic skills taught to students
reading, writing, and math skills
Name one college or university founded from 1600 to 1776.
Harvard University or College of William & Marry
Ireland, Scotland, Holland, Germany, and England.
What is a hornbook?
Flat wooden board with a handle and a sheet of paper with the alphabet and a prayer.
Who had a formal education in the Southern Colonies?
Boys (Wealthy plantation owner's sons).
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware
Middle colonies