Setting the Stage for the Progressive Period |
| 1859 | John Brown attempts to start slave insurrection at Harper’s
Ferry, West Virginia |
| 1859 | Darwin
publishes Origin of Species |
| 1859 | Death of Horace Mann, birth of John Dewey |
| 1867 | U.S. Office of Education established |
| 1869 | Susan
B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organize the National Woman Suffrage
Association |
| 1873 | Influenced by German pedagogical theory, St. Louis schools
establish the first public kindergartens |
| 1875 | Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone |
| 1878 | Edison patents phonograph |
| 1879 | Edison
invents first practical electric lamp |
1880s |
| 1881 | New York Trade Schools are privately organized to provide vocational
training |
| 1882 | Massachusetts passes the first mandatory state school consolidation
law to enlarge rural schools and make them more efficient |
| 1885 | Beginning of the “new immigration” |
| 1886 | Statue
of Liberty is dedicated in New York Harbor (“The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus
is inscribed at the statue’s base) |
| 1886 | American Federation of Labor is organized |
| 1886 | Bomb
explodes in Haymarket Square, Chicago, killing and wounding over 80 police
and workers at a protest over treatment of McCormick Harvesting Machine
strikers |
| 1888 | Edward Bellamy publishes Looking Backward, 2000–1887 |
| 1889 | The Wall Street Journal is established |
1890s |
| 1890 | Sherman Anti‑Trust Act is passed |
| 1893 | The
National Educational Association’s Committee of Ten, chaired by Charles
Eliot, stresses mental discipline as the primary objective of secondary
schooling |
| 1893 | Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer publish The Psychic Mechanism
of Hysterical Phenomena, the foundation of psychoanalysis |
| 1894 | Pullman Palace Car Company strike in Chicago, with sympathetic
railroad strike in 27 states and territories |
| 1896 | John Dewey opens
his laboratory school at the University of Chicago |
| 1896 | New York City abolishes the ward system of school administration;
St. Louis does so in the following year |
| 1897 | llinois
passes a child labor law barring employment of children under age 14 |
| 1898 | Jane Addams opens Hull House as immigrant settlement House
in Chicago |
| 1899 | John Dewey begins to affect public perception of education
by publishing The School and Society |
1900s |
| 1901-1909 | Theodore Roosevelt is twenty‑sixth president |
| 1901 | J. P. Morgan organizes U.S. Steel Corporation, the first billion‑dollar
corporation |
| 1901 | Marconi sends first transatlantic wireless radio message |
| 1902 | Chinese
Exclusion Act is extended to prohibit Chinese immigrants from the Philippine
Islands |
| 1903 | Wright brothers achieve first airplane flight at Kitty Hawk,
North Carolina |
| 1905 | Albert Einstein proposes special theory of relativity and
the equation E 5 mc2 |
| 1905 | The 4‑H
movement to educate rural children in the essentials of modern agriculture
is established in Oregon |
| 1907 | All but nine states, all of which are in the South, now have
compulsory attendance laws |
| 1908 | Henry Ford introduces Model T |
1910s |
| 1910 | Ella Flagg Young becomes the first woman president of NEA |
| 1910 | Jane Addams becomes the first woman to receive an honorary
degree from Yale University and publishes Twenty Years at Hull House |
| 1912 | Maria
Montessori publishes The Montessori Method |
| 1917 | Congress passes law requiring literacy test for all immigrants |
| 1917 | Smith‑Hughes Act provides federal money for vocational
education |
| 1917-1921 | Lusk laws in New York State and similar laws in other states
limit teaching to American citizens and prescribe standards for patriotic
behavior and teaching |
| 1918 | NEA’s Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education stresses social efficiency and
development of personality as the primary objectives of secondary schooling |
| 1919 | Progressive Education Association is established |
1920s |
| 1920 | League
of Woman Voters formed in Chicago to educate women in the use of the vote
and improve the economic, political, and social conditions of the country |
| 1920 | 19th Amendment is passed giving women in the United States
the right to vote |
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