The american common school period

Horace Man

Horace Mann was the first securatary American of the state board of education in massachutess. He was a slavery abolitionist and worked hard to establish eduation for every boy and girl.In 1848,, Mann was elected to the United States House of Rep.. Is also Known as the “father of American education,” Advacated the establishment for free libraries

William Holmes McGuffey has a series of elementary school reading books and is known as the McGuffey Readers.The book taught moral lessons to children like reading,spelling and other subjects.One book may of his a student may read will be showing a kid how to be honest or kind.

William Holmes McGuffey

Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel or Froebel was a German pedagogue, a student of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, who l unique needs and capabilities

Friedrich Froebel

Anna Eliot Ticknor was an American educator, who launched the first correspondence school in the United States, and pioneered public libraries in Massachusetts.

Anna Eliot Ticknor

Margarethe Meyer-Schurz was a German-American woman who opened the first German-language kindergarten in the United States at Watertown,

Wisconsin

Margarethe

Schurz

oregan trail

The Oregon Trail, flourished as the main means for hundreds of thousands of emigrants to reach the Northwest from the early 1840s through the 1860s. It crossed varied and often difficult terrain that included large territories occupied by Native Americans.

Oregon trail

California's most famous gold rush dates to the morning of January 24, 1848, when James Marshall made his customary inspection of the sawmill he was building for John Sutter.

Gold rush

The American Civil War was fought between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America, a collection of eleven southern states that left the Union in 1860 and 1861. The conflict began primarily as a result of the long-standing disagreement over the institution of slavery.

Cilvil War

Panic of 1873

One of the worst things happened in 1873 – during the time of the Freedman's Bank. The panic started with a problem in Europe, when the stock market crashed. Investors began to sell off the investments they had in American projects, particularly railroads.

The morril act made it possible for states to establish public colleges funded by the development or sale of associated federal land grants

Morrill Act of 1852

This treaty, signed on February 2, 1848, ended the war between the United States and Mexico.The treaty effectively halved the size of Mexico and doubled the territory of the United States.

Treaty of Guadalupe

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free.

Emancipation

Proclamation

The 13th admendmate states Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

13th Admendment

The 14th admenment ratified in 1868, granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including former enslaved people—and guaranteed all citizens “equal protection of the laws.” One of the three amendments passed during the Reconstruction era to abolish slavery

14th admendment

Cilvil War

The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the United States, and the Confederacy, which was formed by states that seceded.

The primary role of a teacher is to deliver classroom instruction that helps students learn.

Role of teachers

The American Common School Peiod brought more chang in how subjects WERE taught instead of what subject IS taught.Big changes includes establishments of kindergareden in public schools.

-Use of McGuffeys readers

What was the curriculum comprised of

In the 1860s, there was schools, they were in a small room, the desks were right beside each other and woooden and had very few reosurses.

where there school buildings

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2 Reform schools

Pictures

''the term normal schools reflected the hope that through teacher training all schools would become normalized or similar to each other to improve quality''

normal

schools

Years before the Civil war, very few enslaved African American americans were able to read and write. Laws existed in the south to prohibit african americans to learn.Whites feared that african americans learning education would make them rebellious

African Americans