Timeline

1635-1862

[|Boston Latin School] || [|American Academy] || [|Congress Land Ordinance] & [|Land Ordinance 1785] || [|Northwest Ordinance 1787] || [|Establishment of the University of Pennsylvania] || [|Lousianna Purchase] || [|Congress Ends Slave Trade] || 1st Permanent Continuing/Higher Ed Seminary for Women [|Emma Wiliard Seminary] || [|Noah Webester: Amherst University] || [|Man: Phrenology] || [|Catherine Beecher: Hartford Seminary] || [|Oberlin College] & [|Oberlin College Archives] || [|Pestalozzi] || [|Catholics in America] || [|Overview of Catholic Schools] || [|Western Female Institute] || [|Mt. Holyoke Legacy] & [|Detailed History: Mt. Holyoke] || [|Integration in Nantucket] || [|Treatise on Domestic Economy] || [|Suing for Discrimination] || [|Compulsory Attendance Act] || [|Dred Scott vs. Sanford] || [|Homestead Act] ||
 * 1635 || Boston Latin School (Boston) Founded by Rev. John Cotton
 * 1751 || American Academy (Philadelphia) Founded by Ben Franklin
 * 1766 || Rush, Washington, Webster, & Jefferson Discuss Value of Education at Home vs. Abroad (AE, 86) ||
 * 1776 || Enlightenment Era influences America via humanism & inquiry (AE, 73) ||
 * || Declaration of Independence Signed by 56 men; written by Thomas Jefferson (AE, 77) ||
 * || U.S. Population is 2.5 Million; Less than half support Jefferson & Whig Party (AE, 77) ||
 * || Native Americans & African Americans oppose insurrection (AE, 77); Descendants of Africans composed about 20% of population; all but 25,000 were slaves ||
 * || Jefferson begins drafting bills regarding land ownership, emancipation of slaves, religious freedom, etc. ||
 * 1778 || Jefferson drafts Education Bill No. 79 for “More General Diffusion of Knowledge” (AE, 82) & Proposes College of William & Mary be made a state university (AE, 83) ||
 * 1781 || Articles of Confederation ratified by each state; state power reserved (AE, 79) ||
 * 1783 || Noah Webster Publishes 1st Speller & Dictionary, Sold 1.5 Million Copies ||
 * 1784 || Jedidiah Morse publishes //Geography Made Easy// textbook ||
 * 1785 || Land Ordinance by Congress Raises Money Through Land Sales & Surveys
 * || Georgia Legislation Disbars residents from civic office for as many years as they studied abroad to encourage home education ||
 * || Noah Webster publishes 3rd volume of his reader, //A Grammatical Institute of the English Language// ||
 * 1786 || Rush calls for educational reform in Pennsylvania similar to Jefferson’s in Virginia emphasizing taxes for public education and the “greater good of the community” as a result & James Madison voices concerns for the costs of Jefferson’s education plans (AE, 95) ||
 * 1787 || Northwest Ordinance sets aside land for schools west of the Ohio River
 * || Webster publishes essays in //American Magazine// emphasizing virtue & liberty-focused schools (AE, 92) ||
 * || Jefferson addresses the Young Ladies’ Academy in Philadelphia re: curriculum ||
 * 1788 || // Philadelphia Federal Gazette // proposes that Congress create a federal University (via Rush), (AE, 88) ||
 * 1789 || University of Pennsylvania Established
 * 1795 || American Philosophical Society (APS) hosts essay contest for “New Republic Education ideas” (AE, 93) ||
 * || Caleb Bingham publishes new reader, //The American Perceptor// (AE, 92) ||
 * 1797 || Samuel Knox & Samuel Harrison Smith Win Essay Contest & Propose Establishment of a Board of Literature and Science ||
 * 1799 || Lindsey Murray publishes //The English Reader// (AE, 92) ||
 * 1801 || Jefferson serves as President of Washington, D.C. School Board (AE, 84) ||
 * 1802 || Jefferson Founds West Point Military College in New York (AE, 84) ||
 * 1803 || Louisiana Purchase Doubles Size of U.S. Territory/Land
 * 1807 || Congress Ends Slave Trade
 * 1819 || Charter for University of Virginia created by Jefferson (AE, 85) ||
 * 1820 || Less than 1/20 lived in populations of 8,000+ (AE, p107) ||
 * || William Maclure becomes schoolmaster of Robert Owen’s utopian New Harmony, Indiana community (AE, p127) ||
 * 1821 || Emma Hart Willard Opens Troy Female Seminary in Troy, New York;
 * || Noah Webster Founds Amherst College in Massachusetts
 * 1823 || Phrenology becomes a part of Mann’s pedagogy
 * || Catharine Beecher opens Hartford Female Seminary
 * 1821 || 1st Boston Public School ||
 * 1827 || Organized Labor Movement Begins (AE, p107) ||
 * 1828 || Andrew Jackson Becomes President (AE, p109) – “Hope for the common man” ||
 * || Nation’s 1st Labor-Oriented Political Party “Workingman Party” is formed in Philadelphia & New York; supports taxes for school ||
 * 1829 || Noah Webster’s Speller Reaches 20 Million Copies (AE, 92) ||
 * 1830 || Oberlin College Becomes 1st Admitting Men’s School
 * || First Common School is Launched (AE, p113) ||
 * || Illiteracy overcome in Switzerland due to Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi’s Pedagogy
 * 1831 || Catholic Parochial School Opens to Teach African-American Children in Baltimore
 * 1834 || Nun murdered & priest tarred & feathered in Massachusetts in hopes to destroy Catholicism
 * 1836 || William Holmes McGuffey Publishes Series of McGuffey Readers (AE, p113) entitled //The Eclectic Reader Series// ||
 * 1837 || Horace Mann Becomes Secretary of Massachusetts Board of Ed (AE, 115) ||
 * || Catharine Beecher Opens Western Female Institute in Cincinnati
 * || Mary Lyon Opens Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary in Massachusetts
 * 1838 || 1st Black Citizen to Sue Boston Schools for Segregation (AE, 131) ||
 * 1840 || Eunice Ross denied entrance to high school after passing exams based on race in Nantucket
 * 1841 || Catharine Beecher publishes //Treatise on Domestic Economy//
 * 1842 || Mann gathers Employer Data re: Student Preparation (AE, 120) ||
 * 1845 || Right to Sue For School Discrimination Available in Massachusetts
 * 1846 || Mann’s 10th Annual Review Challenges Land Owners to Pay Taxes for Ed (AE, 121) ||
 * 1850 || 1/9 Live in towns of 2,000+; 1/12 Live in Towns of 8,000+ (AE, p107) ||
 * 1852 || Compulsory Attendance Act (Massachusetts, Ages 8-14)
 * 1856 || Co-Ed School in Chicago ||
 * 1857 || Dred Scott vs. Sanford
 * 1861 || Vote to abolish high school in Beverly, Massachusetts (working class vs. elitist), which Katz refers to in his criticisms of Mann in 1968’s //The Irony of Early School Reform// (AE, 130) ||
 * 1862 || Homestead Act Encourages Land Ownership West of Mississippi

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