Classroom in the 1800s

An 1800s Classroom

During the 19th Century,

America was rapidly

changing and growing

1800: 16 States

1896: 45 States

Discipline

America in the 1800s

America in the 1800s

2010

Wars

Culture

1)Equal Rights among African Americans

2)Women and Education

3)Expansion of the US

1801-1805 Barbary Wars United States vs. Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli

1812-1815 War of 1812 United States vs. Great Britain

1813-1814 Creek War United States vs. Creek Indians

1836 War of Texas Independence Texas vs. Mexico

1846-1848 Mexican-American War United States vs. Mexico

1861-1865 U.S. Civil War Union vs. Confederacy

1898 Spanish-American War United States vs. Spain

1800: 16 States

1896: 45 States

Rural Schools

Start

Common Schools

Compare

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Questions of the 19th Century

Who will pay?

"The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people and be willing to bear the expenses of it. There should not be a district of one mile square, without a school in it, not founded by a charitable individual, but maintained at the public expense of the people themselves."

— John Adams, U.S. President, 1785

Families?

Those in the school?

Government?

Society?

Idea: To have an

Educated society

1800s

Schooling

Who should be

Educated?

Who?

How should they

be educated?

Women?

Boys?

Colored?

1) Rural

2) Common

3) Classical

4) College

Technology

Blackboard and Chalk

Student Desks

Modern Times

New Ways to Write

Classical

Growth In the 1800s

1800: First private school for African Americans

*After the legislature to extend public education to African American students failed

*Prince Hall invited African American families to a private school in his home

1817 – First school of law opens (Harvard Law)

1821 – First high school with free enrollment

*Boston High School

1825 – First high school for girls

*Boston opens the first high school for girls.

1827 – Education laws implemented

*towns with more than 500 families are required to provide public English high schools

* Replaced the classical counterparts.

1829 – First school for the blind in America

*Perkins School for the Blind (New England Asylum for the Blind)

*Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller attended later on

1837 – First women’s college

* Mount Holyoke Seminary for women

1837 – First United States Board of Education

*In 1st 12 years: Double State Funding , 50 new High School Built and more formal training programs

1839 – First state school for teachers

1848 – First graded elementary school

*Boston’s Quincy Grammar School

1852 – School attendance goes into law

*8-14 years old, must attend 3 months a year

1867 – US Department of Education Established

1873 – School year is extended to 20 Weeks

College

Growth in the 1800s

More Women Educated

African Americans Educated

*Private School for African Americans (1800)

School of Law

*Harvard (1817)

1821 – First high school with free enrollment

*Boston High School

1825 – First high school for girls

*Boston opens the first high school for girls.

1827 – Education laws implemented

*towns with more than 500 families are required to provide public English high schools

* Replaced the classical counterparts.

1829 – First school for the blind in America

*Perkins School for the Blind (New England Asylum for the Blind)

*Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller attended later on

1837 – First women’s college

* Mount Holyoke Seminary for women

1837 – First United States Board of Education

*In 1st 12 years: Double State Funding , 50 new High School Built and more formal training programs

1839 – First state school for teachers

1848 – First graded elementary school

*Boston’s Quincy Grammar School

1852 – School attendance goes into law

*8-14 years old, must attend 3 months a year

1867 – US Department of Education Established

1873 – School year is extended to 20 Weeks

Universities

Normal School

The University of Central Missouri