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History of American Education (1600-1900)

By ddacole

  • Harvard Founded

  • Massachusettes Act

    First laws enacted reguarding education.

  • Compulsary Education Laws

    All towns with 50 or more must hire a teacher.

  • New England 1650

    Reading materials are very few, textbook are The Bible and Hornbook.

  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    Rousseau has a different philosphy about education and believes that children should be allowed to develop naturally and schools were not needed.

  • Land Ordinance of 1785

    specifies western territories must be divided into townships and public schools set up

  • First Academy for Girls Opens

    Philadelphia, Academy for wealthy girls

  • Taxes For Public Education

    Massachusetts is the first state to use tax revenue to finance public education

  • BIll of Rights

    Although there is no mention of education, the states gain the power over education, not the government.

  • Dictionary of the English Language

    Webster’s A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language , a 400-pagevolume that defined 40,000 words, was published in 1806.

  • Normal School Act

  • School in New Britian

    220 studens admitted of equal and opposite sexes.

  • State Board of Education

    State Board of Education is Formed.

  • Free Public Education

    Public Education in Elementary School is free.

  • All High School Education is Free

    High school educatin is also free

  • Northern Securities Co. v. U.S.

    Supreme court case that dissolved the Northern Securities Co, a trust company with a railroad monopoly in the West

  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People(NAACP) was organized

  • 17th Admendment

    calls for the direct election of senators by the voters instead of their election by state legislatures

  • National Education Association’s Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education

    7 specific goals of education
    Designed for the “new” high schools (H.S) of the time
    Attendance in High Schools grew after World War I

  • 19th Amendment

    extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections