American Early National Period, 1776-1840

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  • Start of Education

    Girls taught to cook, sew, and other various things pertaining to household work. Boys attended grammar schools and learned to be shopkeepers or craftsmen,

  • English Grammar School

    Only boys could attend, practical instruction provided

  • English Grammar Schools Accept Female Students

  • Horace Mann

    Father of American Public Education

  • Academies

  • Free School Society

    The Free School Society provided education for poor children.

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Believed that education in the new republic could be enlarged to educate the new citizens; a system of publicly supported schools should be created in the states to allow the poor to receive an education.

  • First Public High School

    Boston

  • First Co-Ed College

    Oberlin College in Ohio