Important Figures
The person who visited and documented the conditions of schools in Massachusetts in the early 1800s.
Who was Horace Mann?
Prior to the establishment of free public schools, colonial communities did this if they wanted to hire a teacher for their children.
What is "pooled their resources"?
Thomas Jefferson believed these children should receive enough education to prepare them for marriage.
Who are girls?
Thomas Jefferson believed that all of this group of children should receive a free education for three years.
Who are white girls and boys?
A Founding Father of the U.S. who advocated for a free public education system.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
In this state, Thomas Jefferson tried but failed to established a statewide public education system.
What is Virginia?
At dame schools, young children learned their letters and a little discipline with the help of this "textbook."
What is a hornbook?
This historical figure believed all children, rich and poor, should be educated together for free.
Who was Horace Mann?
The person who created the first American textbook in an attempt to eliminate British texts.
Who was Noah Webster?
By this date, public school expenditures had more than doubled from $69 million in 1870 to $147 million.
What is 1890?
It was the most common early schoolbook and was used to teach reading and the Protestant catechism.
What was The New England Primer?
In an effort to get his daughter enrolled in a school near where they lived, Benjamin Roberts took his case to the state legislature in this state around 1850.
What is Massachusetts?
This person promoted the idea that young women from the Eastern U.S. should be employed as teachers in frontier schools in the Western U.S.
Who was Catharine Beecher?
Despite the obstacles of segregation and unequal funding, the level of literacy among African American rose to this percentage in the decades following the Civil War.
What is 70%?
The creation of this textbook is responsible for the variation in spelling and pronunciation that developed between British English and American English.
What is the Blueback Speller?
After this event, the U.S. Congress passed a law that required states to offer free non-sectarian education to all children.
What was the Civil War?
This person was a prominent force behind the development of the private Catholic school system in the U.S.
Who was Archbishop John Hughes?
This U.S. government-run Indian residential school was located in Pennsylvania and operated between 1879 and 1918.
What was Carlisle Indian Industrial School?
In addition to teaching students to read, the "McGuffey readers" reinforced this virtue.
What is "common morality of society"?
These children were routinely taken from their home and families and sent to government run boarding schools where they were forced to abandon their languages, customs and dress.
Who were Native American children?