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south Carolina denies education to blacks
Fearing that black literacy would prove a threat to the slave system, which relied on slaves' dependence on masters. whites in many colonies instituted laws forbidding slaves to learn to read or write and making it a crime for others to teach them. -
opening of Franklin academy in Philadelphia
school opened by Ben Franklin, teachings of all studies. -
Noah Webster spelling book
an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Education" -
land ordinance act, northwest ordinance
standardized system whereby settlers could purchase title to farmland in the undeveloped west. Congress at the time did not have the power to raise revenue by direct taxation, so land sales provided an important revenue stream. The Ordinance set up a survey system that eventually covered over three-fourths of the area of the continental United States
