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Agricultural Age
The age of agriculture began and people started to move away from wandering and begin to settle down into small villages and develop culture. Animals were domesticated and cattle were herded.
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Steam Locomotive
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250,00 US Children under the age of 15 did not attend school. These children worked in factories and mines. -
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Atlanta School system turns away 400 students because they do not have enough space. -
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First public college
Joliet Junior College opens in Illinois. It is the first public college in the US. -
Technology
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From 1905 to 1909 Jane Adams, leader of the Settlement House movement, served as a member of the Chicago Board of Education. She fought to change curriculum in public schools. -
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Binet-Simmons Scale
Binet-Simons Scale was released. Its purpose is to measure the intellectual capacity of a child. -
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MontessoriSchool
First Montessori School opens in the US. Children teach themselves- Everything Montessori schools teach was based on this observation -
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Motorized Movie Cameras
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Psychology of Learning
Edward Lee Thorndike published a book” The Psychology of Learning”, based on his theory that human learning involves habit formation, or connections between stimuli and response. -
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Carrier Engineering
Carrier engineering is founded beginning the commercialization of air conditioning -
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Right to vote
With the passing of the 19th amendment women are given the right to vote -
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John Harwood invented the self-winding watch -
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Piaget
Jean Piaget’s “ The Childs Conception of the World” is published- His theory of cognitive development influences American education. -
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Stockmarket crash
New York Stock exchange and the market crashStock market crash said to have occurred on Tuesday, October 24 and Thursday, October 26. -
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Semi Joseph Begun built the worlds first tape recorder used for broadcasting. -
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Business
First concept car
Harley Earl created the Buick-Y-Job-considered to be the first concept car -
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Education
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/David_Wechsler
The Wechsler- Intelligence Scale is developed by David Wechsler. This is still used in schools today to help identify students needing special education. -
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John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry built the first electronic digital computer at Iowa State University. -
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Z3
Konrad Zuse completed the Z3- the worlds first electronic, fully programable digital computer -
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Churchills Iron Curtain speech
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Population Explosion
In 1954 the country experienced the most births than any previous year -
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Theory on operant behavior
Skinner’s book” Science and Human Behavior” is published which explains his theory on operant behavior. -
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1956 Federal Aid Highway Act
Eisenhower creates the interstates by signing the Federal Aid Highway Act -
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Internal pacemaker was invented by Wilson Greatbatch -
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Creation of malls
Creation of Malls – Department stores were testing night time shopping and starting to end the never open on Sunday policy -
Education
Proximal development
- Lev Vytosky’s ideas are brought to the US- He is best known for his ideas on “ zone of proximal development" -
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Hand calculator
First hand calculator was invented in 1966 by a team at Texas Instruments -
Education
cognitive learniing theories
Jerome Brunner’s theories help popularize the cognitive learning theories -
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1970 prices
Cost of US postage stamp was .06- cost of a gallon of gas .36- and the President was Richard Nixon -
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Rehabilitation Act
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Business
[First Digital Camera](Harles Seeberger Escalator Inventors)
Steve Sasson of Kodak created the first digital camera -
Technology
WordStar released
Wordstar: Released by Micropro International, WordStar was the first successful word processing program for microcomputers. -
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Recession
Unemployment continued in the face of recession. By the end of the year nearly 12 million persons were jobless. -
Education
At risk schools
1983- A report on schools deems we are a nation at risk and wants changes in all public schools. -
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Multiculturalism
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Madeline Albright
Madeline Albright was sworn in as the first female secretary of state on January 23, 1997 -
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Communication Age
Fourth wave to include major breakthroughs in biotechnology and nano technology. -
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Obama
Obama elected first African American presidenthttp://noosphere.princeton.edu/obama.elected.html
