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The roots of American education began with the Jamestown colony, the first permanent English settlement in North America. Religion was an integral part of the colony from its beginning
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substantial pockets of Dutch in New York, Swedes in Delaware, and Germans in Pennsylvania brought their native cultures to the New World. As a result, middle colonists belonged to a number of religious groups, such as Dutch Reformist, Quaker, Lutheran, Baptist, Roman Catholic, and Jewish
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Life in the Southern colonies Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgi was linked to the land and revolved around agriculture, often on large plantations where African slaves and indentured servants worked land owned by wealthy landlords. Poor White settlers worked small farms on the margins, barely scratching out an existence.
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he separate colonies became the United States of America, and this country shaped its future through the Constitution and the Bill of Rights
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To support states’ efforts, Congress passed the Land Ordinance
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At that time, Congress didn’t have the power to directly tax American citizens, so the Land Ordinance was designed to raise money by selling land in the territories west of the original colonies acquired from Britain at the end of the Revolutionary War.
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The U.S. Constitution was written
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It has had 27 amendments, the first ten of which are known as our Bill of Rights. The original colonies were very religiously diverse, and because of this diversity, our country’s founders concluded that no religion should be placed above others. This led to the “establishment clause” of the First Amendment, which prohibited the government from passing legislation to establish any one official religion over another.
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Andrew Jackson, the popular and down-to-earth hero of the War of 1812, was elected president. Second, westward expansion provided opportunities for the poor and landless to start over by pulling up stakes and heading west. The land area of the United States nearly doubled between 1830 and 1865, and the population increased from 13 to 32 million, 4 million of whom were new immigrants
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Russia launched the Sputnik satellite and appeared to be winning the space race, a torrent of federal funds targeted instruction in math and science in our country.