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The ship Mayflower lands in Cape Cod, bringing the first colonists to America.
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The Boston Latin School is founded. This is the first private school in the new world.
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Harvard is founded. This is the first college in the New World, and was made to train ministers.
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This act was enacted to combot the Devil by having well educated people who could read their Bible in each community.
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This essay, published by John Locke, states that the persons mind is a blank slate that is molded by those around them.
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The New England Primer is published. This is the first textbook in the New World.
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John Locke publishes Some Thoughts Concerning Education, which states that upper class boys should be educated to be moral, reflective gentleman.
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John Locke publishes On Working Schools, which states that the lower class should be educated in such a way as to imbue a good work ethic in them.
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First publicly supported library is founded in South Carolina
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First Public Library Law, outlines plan for new public library.
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All Roman Catholic Priests are banned from the colony of Massachusetts.
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Yale is founded.
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First time blacks are denied the right to an education.
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Benjamin Franklin establishes the American Philosophical Society, bringing new ideas from the European Enlightenment to America. These ideas clash with the common religious ideas, as they are about secularism, reason, and science.
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Ben Franklin establishes the “English Academy”, featuring a classical education with a modern attitude.
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End of French and Indian War