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Kindergarten was discovered by Friedrich Froebel.
Horace Mann the First Secretary of Massachusetts Board of Education
Education was not a important focus of Americans within the antebellum period. The person most identified with the common school movement was Horace Mann, a member of the Massachusetts state legislature, and then secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education.
Problems with the American School System:
-During the 1830s, no state had a system of universal
public education.
-In some regions, many teachers were almost illiterate.
-In the West, where the population wasn't as concentrated, many children had no access to schools.
-In the South, blacks were excluded from the school system.
-The majority of Native Americans were not able to receive an education, either by circumstance or by choice.
1890 ~ 1920
State campaigns brought some success.
Women won the right to vote in Colorado in 1893
In 1890, the two sides of the movement joined to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association, a union long pursued by Susan B. Anthony, the first president of the new organization.
The goal of the abolitionist movement was the immediate emancipation of all slaves and the
end of racial discrimination and segregation.
From the 1830s until 1870, the abolitionist
movement attempted to achieve immediate emancipation of all slaves and the ending of
racial segregation and discrimination.
Civil war to 1820, women's rights were limited.
During the war Susan B. Anthony and other politically active reformers organized the Women's National Loyal League in New York to collect signatures on petitions
Frederick Douglass—a former slave who had been known as Frederick Bailey while in slavery and
who was the most famous black man among the abolitionists broke with William Lloyd Garrison’s newspaper.
While women in the antebellum period were far
from being seen as equal citizens in the American Republic, many benefited from increased opportunities and changes in social attitudes which became apparent before the Civil War.
While Sojourner Truth, Douglass, Delaney
and others wrote and spoke to end slavery,
a former slave named Harriet Tubman. After
escaping from bondage herself, she made
repeated trips into Dixie to help others.
Believed to have helped some 300 slaves
to escape