History 270 Documents and Important Events

Jamestown Settled

Jan 1, 1607

Massachussetts Bay Colony settled

Jan 1, 1620

Harvard founded

Jan 1, 1636

Document: Virginia Council, Insstructions to Sir Thomas Gates, Knight, Governor of Virginia

Jan 1, 1636

Topic: Removal of Native American children from their tribes, families, and priests

Massachussetts' Old Deluder Satan Law

Jan 1, 1647

Fraser: page 8

Document: Virginia Statutes on the Education of Indian Children Held Hostage

Jan 1, 1656

Topic: Native American removal
Fraser: page 4-5

Document: Virginia's Cure, Or An Advisive Narrative Concerning Virginia

Jan 1, 1662

Fraser: page 7

Document: Sir William Berkeley, Gov. of VA, Response to "Enquiries to the Governor of VA" from the Lords' Commissioners of Foreign Plantations

Jan 1, 1671

Fraser: page 7
"I thank God there are no free schools nor printing..."

William & Mary College founded

Jan 1, 1693

Yale University founded

Jan 1, 1702

Document: South Carolina Statute on Conversion of Slaves to Christianity

Jan 1, 1711

Topic: Slaves and Native Americans can convert to Chritianity, but that does not mean that they are free.
Fraser: page 5

Document: Benjamin Franklin "Autobiography"

Jan 1, 1714

Fraser: page 9
Representative of education of the era because he was educated from a wide variety of sources.

Document: A Missionary Report from Mr. Taylor to the Society in North Caroline on the Baptism of Slaves

Apr 23, 1719

Fraser: page 6

Industrial Revolution

Period: Sep 15, 1760 to Sep 15, 1840

Document: The New England Primer

Jan 1, 1768

Fraser: page 10-16
Religious figures used to teach the alphabet.

Boston Massacre / American Revolution begins

Jan 1, 1773

Declaration of Independence

Jan 1, 1776

Document: Thomas Jefferson, A Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge

Jan 1, 1779

Fraser: page 20
Topics: publicly funded education, girls and boys attend first three years, scholarships for poor but smart people

Articles of Confederation

Jan 1, 1781

Treaty of Paris

Jan 1, 1783

WikiEnded the Revolutionary War

Shay's Rebellion

Jan 1, 1786

Wiki

Constitutional Convention

Jan 1, 1787

Document: Benjamin Rush, "Thoughts Upon Female Education"

Jan 1, 1787

Fraser: page 25
Topics: Girls should be educated to benefit their sons and husbands, "republican motherhood," curriculum content for girls

Document: US Congress, "The Northwest Ordinance"

Jul 13, 1787

Fraser: page 41
Topics: Native Americans shall not serve as slaves, nor shall their land be taken by the government

Constitution ratified

Jan 1, 1789

French Revolution

Period: Sep 15, 1789 to Sep 15, 1799

Document: Noah Webster, "On the Education of Youth in America"

Jan 1, 1790

Fraser: page 29
Topics: Creating a uniquely American form of education by rejecting everything European, "Cultural nationalist"

Bill of Rights

Jan 1, 1791

Litchfield Female Academy founded by Sarah Pierce

Sep 15, 1792

Whiskey Rebellion

Jan 1, 1794

NY Public Schools served the "churchless" poor

Oct 9, 1805

NY Public Schools served the churchless AND church-going poor

Oct 9, 1808

NY Charity schools are consolidated under 1 organization

Period: Oct 9, 1808 to Oct 9, 1825

National Road construction completed

Sep 11, 1811

Document: "Reminiscence of the Lancasterian School in Detroit (Williams)

Sep 15, 1818

Document: "Improving Femail Education" by Emma Willard

Sep 13, 1819

Document: "The Lancasterian System of Education" (Lancaster)

Sep 15, 1821

Troy Female Seminary founded (first FS)

Oct 9, 1821

Beecher founds Hartford female seminary

Oct 9, 1823

Document: "The Psychology of Monitorial Instruction"

Sep 15, 1824

Lancasterian schools common throughout US

Sep 11, 1825

NY Public School Society founded

Oct 9, 1825

Explosion of female seminaries

Period: Oct 9, 1830 to Oct 9, 1860

NY Public School Society is the largest organization in NY and has a monopoly on public school funds

Oct 9, 1835

Beecher founds board of National Popular Education

Oct 9, 1846

Recruited women from the East to teach in the Midwest.

Orphan Trains

Period: Sep 15, 1853 to Sep 15, 1929

"Hard Times" is published

Sep 11, 1854

The Civil War

Period: Sep 15, 1861 to Sep 15, 1865

13th Amendment

Oct 9, 1865

14th Amendment

Oct 9, 1868

15th Amendment

Oct 9, 1870

Tuskegee Institute

Oct 9, 1881

Booker T. Washington heads Tuskegee Institute

Period: Oct 9, 1881 to Oct 9, 1895

Hull House founded

Sep 15, 1889

Closing of the American Frontier

Sep 15, 1890

Charnley Perskey House Built

Oct 9, 1891

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World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago)

Oct 9, 1893

Virginia, African American Schoolhouse

Oct 1, 1895

LOC via VA Historical Society

Booker T. Washington "Atlanta Compromise" Speech

Oct 9, 1895

Plessy v. Ferguson decided

Oct 1, 1896

Plessy v. Ferguson

Oct 9, 1896

General Education Board & White Philanthropists controlled curriculum and school environment

Period: Oct 9, 1900 to Oct 9, 1940

Booker T. Washington organizes Pullman train tour for white philanthropists around the south

Oct 9, 1901

Rockefeller founds General Education Board

Oct 9, 1902

DuBois: "The Souls of Black Folk"

Oct 9, 1903

Niagra Movement

Oct 9, 1905

NAACP Founded

Oct 9, 1910

Furneaux House built by Walter Burley Griffin

Oct 9, 1913

Rosenwald Fund founded

Oct 9, 1917

The Williams School, interior, Mississippi

Oct 4, 1949

John E. Phay Collection

Brown v. Board decided

Oct 1, 1954

Holmes County Durant School District 2nd Grade classroom, Mississippi 1955

Oct 1, 1955

John Phay Collection

Clay County West Point High School Home Economics Classroom, Mississippi 1956

Oct 1, 1956

John Phay Collection

Jones County Friendship School, 1st and 2nd Grade Classroom, Mississippi 1956

Oct 1, 1956

John Phay Collection