History of Education By Mykal5 1650 horn book Period: 1650 to 1700 American colonial period 1700 Dame school Period: 1776 to 1840 american early national period 1780 Benjamin Franklin 1790 Thomas Jefferson 1830 common schools Period: 1830 to 1850 american common school 1836 McGuffey Readers 1840 friedrich Froebel 1848 Horace mann 1850 Normal School teacher schools 1862 Morill Act of 1862 Period: 1880 to 1921 The american Progressive period 1906 Maria Montessori 1917 Smith-Hughes Act of 1917 1938 John Dewey