Horace mann timeline background

The Life of Horace Mann

By shannono17
  • first public school established in Boston by Benjamin Frankin

    first public school established in Boston by Benjamin Frankin

  • The General Court of Massachusetts Bay decrees that every town should have an elementary school

  • Thomas Jefferson proposes "two-track" educaion system

    system would separate the "laboring" and the "learned"

  • Northwest Ordinance

    forms a structure for education in new U.S. lands
  • Horace Mann born

    Horace Mann born

    A son of poor farmers, Franklin, Massachusetts

  • petition in Boston calls for establishment of free public schooling

  • First public high-school opens in Boston

  • Massachusetts passes law to make public school open to all free of charge

  • Period: to

    Mann Serves on Massachusetts House of Representatives

  • Period: to

    Horace Mann serves in Massachusetts Senate

  • Ohio's Oberlin College became the first college to accept women

    Mann preached education for all

  • Mann becomes head of Massachusetts State Board of Education

  • Secretary of Education

    Mann leaves law practice to pursue new position

  • biweekly Common School Journal begins

  • Period: to

    Horace Mann serves on U.S. House of Representatives

  • Massachusetts passes first compulsory education law

  • Death of Horace Mann

  • Congress makes it illegal for Native Americans to go to school

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    African Americans try to bring education to the South