The Common School Movement

By karenh5

  • Westward Expansion

    Provided opportunities for the poor and landless to start over by pulling up stakes and heading west. [Link text] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAWqgSFQB3Q

  • The Common School Movement

    Attempt to make education available to all children in the United States
  • Massachusetts law makes all grades of public school free to all

    Massachusetts law makes all grades of public school free to all

  • Andrew Jackson Elected President

    Andrew Jackson Elected President

    Andrew Jackson Elected President of the United States
  • New England Asylum for the Blind

    New England Asylum for the Blind

    First school open for the blind
  • First of William Holmes McGuffey's readers is published

    First of William Holmes McGuffey's readers is published

    Most influential textbooks
  • Horace mann becomes secretary of Massachusetts

    Horace mann becomes secretary of Massachusetts

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO0miJHNQ_o
  • First Board of Education

    First Board of Education

    Headed my Horace Mann

  • Normal Schools

    Creation of two year institutions developed to prepare prospective elementary teachers
  • Nations First Compulsory School Attendance Law

    Nations First Compulsory School Attendance Law

    Massachusetts became the leader in education raising teachers salaries by 50% and creating the fist compulsory law with the guidance of Horace Mann

  • Pennsylvania Training School for Feeble-Minded Children

    The US government begins funding this school for children with intellectual disabilities
  • First Free Municipal Library

    First Free Municipal Library

    The Boston public library opens to the public

  • First Kindergarten in the US

    Watertown, Wisconsin founded by Margarethe Schurz
  • National Teachers Association

    National Teachers Association

    Founded by forty three educators in Philadelphia
  • Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species is Published

    Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species is Published

    Caused controversy in schools with the idea of evolution
  • Abraham Lincoln Elected President

    Abraham Lincoln Elected President

  • Civil War Begins

  • The First Morrill Act becomes Law

    The First Morrill Act becomes Law

    Donates public land to colleges that benefit agriculture and the mechanic arts
  • 13th Amendment Passed

    13th Amendment Passed

    Abolished Slavery

  • Civil War Ends

    Educational institutions in the south are closed due to the disturbance and poverty