american common school

By aylingonzalez01
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    American Common School Period

  • Oregon Trail

    People started going through the Oregon Trail to emigrate from Independence, Missouri to the western states primarily Oregon and California

  • Free public education

    Horace Mann established free public education

  • Horace Mann established free libraries

  • McGuffey Readers textbook was published

  • School Curriculum was established

  • Teachers started to gain confidence in their roles

  • The Morrill Act

  • African-Americans get schooling

  • Establishment of kindergarten

    Friedrich Froebel developed the idea of kindergarten

  • Second Morrill Act was expanded