Key Figures
This figure is called the "father of the common school system."
Who is Horace Mann
This is public school that is available to all children.
What is the common school?
This spiritual movement gave birth to the reformation by introducing people to new ideas about religion and morality.
What is the 2nd Great Awakening?
The ideology drove many Americans to go westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This person tried to make America's first ever library for the blind though failed to receive funding from congress.
Who is Samuel Gridley Howe?
These schools where conducted by women in homes during the Colonial Era and were also called "petty schools."
What are Dame Schools?
A victory in this war made American's have a heightened sense of patriotism.
What is the war of 1812?
The U.S got in a war with this neighboring country.
What is Mexico?
This figure sailed to Europe in 1832 to learn about teaching.
Who is Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe?
This form of education sought to give minorities equal opportunities in school by not dividing schools by race.
What is compensatory education?
This kind of democracy made politics more focused towards the common man.
What is Jacksonian Democracy?
The economy shifted from this economy to an industrial economy.
What is an agrarian economy?
This figure made institutions that taught teachers.
Who is Catharine Beecher?
This calls for greater responsibility, lesser teacher autonomy and centralized authority.
What is intensification?
This movement sought to end slavery.
What is the Abolitionist Movement?
Who is Polk?
This figure worked alongside their father.
Who is Catharine Beecher?
This term emphasized the role of the environment in teaching.
What is administrative progressivism?
These perfect societies were talked about in great length.
What are Utopias?
This ideology states that true knowledge goes beyond logic and the senses.
What is transcendentalism?