Early Common School Era |
1808 | Elizabeth Seton establishes a school for girls in Baltimore
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1821 | The first public high school in the United States is established
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1826 | The
first public high schools for girls open in New York and Boston |
1828 | Work begins on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad |
1828 | The first western president, Andrew Jackson, is elected |
1830s |
1833 | Oberlin
College in Ohio is founded, the first coeducational college in the United
States |
1829-1837 | Andrew Jackson is seventh president |
1832 | Telegraph is developed |
1833 | American Anti?Slavery Society is created |
1836 | American
Temperance Union is created |
1837 | First permanent women's college in United States, Mount Holyoke,
is founded |
1837 | The State Board of Education is created in Massachusetts;
Horace Mann is its first executive secretary |
1838 | The
first state normal school in the United States opens in Massachusetts |
1838 | Mount Holyoke College, the first seminary for female teachers
in the United States, is founded in South Hadley, MA by Mary Lyon; it opens
the following year with 87 students |
1840s |
1840 | Blackboards are introduced, prompting educators to predict
a revolution in education |
1844 | Horace Mann describes the Prussian school system in his Seventh
Annual Report |
1846 | The
"potato famine" begins in Ireland |
1847 | Production of McCormick reapers begins |
1848 | The
first women's rights convention is held at Seneca Falls, New York |
1850s |
1852 | Massachusetts is first U.S. state to mandate compulsory school
attendance |
1852 | n North Carolina, the first state superintendent of schools
is appointed in a southern state |
1859 | Horace Mann dies |
1859 | John
Brown attempts to start slave insurrection at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia |
1860s |
1861 | Civil War begins |
1867 | U.S. Office of Education is established |
1870s |
1870s | Teachers in Massachusetts now majority female |
1873 | First
public school kindergarten is established in Missouri |
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