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Europeans settled in the New England area, where Native Americans were seen as a challenge to progress; the Europeans sought to make Native Americans more civilized, marking a early process of social change (Rury, 2020). -
European settlers with mixed religious beliefs sought education to learn literacy and reasoning skills to read and interpret Christian scriptures, religious writings, and Holy Scripture (Rury, 2020). -
Puritans established Harvard College as a result of educated leaders being considered essential for moral and intellectual life (Rury, 2020). -
Massachusetts enacted a law requiring towns with 50 families or more to establish a school (Rury, 2020). Connecticut made a similar law in the years following (Rury, 2020). -
In the late 1600s, Anglicans formed the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG). Worried Englishmen would drift from the church; they dispatched hundreds of ministers (Rury, 2020). -
Yale College was founded to train religious leaders (Rury, 2020). -
During this period of religious revivalism, George Whitefield preached that conviction and commitment to God were important, even more so than scriptural interpretation (Rury, 2020). -
Princeton University was founded to train religious leaders (Rury, 2020). -
An increase from less than a third to a half of women could sign their wills during the later 1700s. -
Though never adopted, Jefferson proposed a plan, the Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge, believing widely accessible and free schooling could lead to natural aristocracy (Rury, 2020). -
Passing the Northwest Ordinance, the Second Continental Congress called for the sale of federal land to create funds that support education. -
By the beginning of the 18th century, literacy rates rose among men and women due to the increased importance placed on literacy skills for record-keeping, etc. (Rury, 2020). -
During the 1800s, children learned by apprenticeship, where they would join another household to learn skills and more formal expectations about education (Rury, 2020). -
Benjamin Rush emphasized the importance of women's education to teach their children the principles of American democracy; thus, the Republican motherhood era began (Rury, 2020). -
Girls during the later 1800s attended summer school sessions in New England.