History 270 Documents and Important Events

By NadiaG

  • Jamestown Settled

  • Massachussetts Bay Colony settled

  • Harvard founded

  • Document: Virginia Council, Insstructions to Sir Thomas Gates, Knight, Governor of Virginia

    Topic: Removal of Native American children from their tribes, families, and priests

  • Massachussetts' Old Deluder Satan Law

    Fraser: page 8

  • Document: Virginia Statutes on the Education of Indian Children Held Hostage

    Topic: Native American removal
    Fraser: page 4-5

  • Document: Virginia's Cure, Or An Advisive Narrative Concerning Virginia

    Fraser: page 7

  • Document: Sir William Berkeley, Gov. of VA, Response to "Enquiries to the Governor of VA" from the Lords' Commissioners of Foreign Plantations

    Fraser: page 7
    "I thank God there are no free schools nor printing..."

  • William & Mary College founded

  • Yale University founded

  • Document: South Carolina Statute on Conversion of Slaves to Christianity

    Topic: Slaves and Native Americans can convert to Chritianity, but that does not mean that they are free.
    Fraser: page 5

  • Document: Benjamin Franklin "Autobiography"

    Fraser: page 9
    Representative of education of the era because he was educated from a wide variety of sources.

  • Document: A Missionary Report from Mr. Taylor to the Society in North Caroline on the Baptism of Slaves

    Fraser: page 6
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Document: The New England Primer

    Fraser: page 10-16
    Religious figures used to teach the alphabet.

  • Boston Massacre / American Revolution begins

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Document: Thomas Jefferson, A Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge

    Fraser: page 20
    Topics: publicly funded education, girls and boys attend first three years, scholarships for poor but smart people

  • Articles of Confederation

  • Treaty of Paris

    WikiEnded the Revolutionary War

  • Shay's Rebellion

    Wiki

  • Constitutional Convention

  • Document: Benjamin Rush, "Thoughts Upon Female Education"

    Fraser: page 25
    Topics: Girls should be educated to benefit their sons and husbands, "republican motherhood," curriculum content for girls

  • Document: US Congress, "The Northwest Ordinance"

    Fraser: page 41
    Topics: Native Americans shall not serve as slaves, nor shall their land be taken by the government

  • Constitution ratified

  • Period: to

    French Revolution

  • Document: Noah Webster, "On the Education of Youth in America"

    Fraser: page 29
    Topics: Creating a uniquely American form of education by rejecting everything European, "Cultural nationalist"

  • Bill of Rights

  • Litchfield Female Academy founded by Sarah Pierce

  • Whiskey Rebellion

  • NY Public Schools served the "churchless" poor

  • NY Public Schools served the churchless AND church-going poor

  • Period: to

    NY Charity schools are consolidated under 1 organization

  • National Road construction completed

  • Document: "Reminiscence of the Lancasterian School in Detroit (Williams)

  • Document: "Improving Femail Education" by Emma Willard

  • Document: "The Lancasterian System of Education" (Lancaster)

  • Troy Female Seminary founded (first FS)

  • Beecher founds Hartford female seminary

  • Document: "The Psychology of Monitorial Instruction"

  • Lancasterian schools common throughout US

  • NY Public School Society founded

  • Period: to

    Explosion of female seminaries

  • NY Public School Society is the largest organization in NY and has a monopoly on public school funds

  • Beecher founds board of National Popular Education

    Recruited women from the East to teach in the Midwest.
  • Period: to

    Orphan Trains

  • "Hard Times" is published

  • Period: to

    The Civil War

  • 13th Amendment

  • 14th Amendment

  • 15th Amendment

  • Tuskegee Institute

  • Period: to

    Booker T. Washington heads Tuskegee Institute

  • Hull House founded

  • Closing of the American Frontier

  • Charnley Perskey House Built

    http://www.sah.org/about-sah/charnley-persky-house/history

  • World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago)

  • Virginia, African American Schoolhouse

    Virginia, African American Schoolhouse
    LOC via VA Historical Society

  • Booker T. Washington "Atlanta Compromise" Speech

  • Plessy v. Ferguson decided

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

  • Period: to

    General Education Board & White Philanthropists controlled curriculum and school environment

  • Booker T. Washington organizes Pullman train tour for white philanthropists around the south

  • Rockefeller founds General Education Board

  • DuBois: "The Souls of Black Folk"

  • Niagra Movement

  • NAACP Founded

  • Furneaux House built by Walter Burley Griffin

  • Rosenwald Fund founded

  • The Williams School, interior, Mississippi

    The Williams School, interior, Mississippi
    John E. Phay Collection

  • Brown v. Board decided

  • Holmes County Durant School District 2nd Grade classroom, Mississippi 1955

    Holmes County Durant School District 2nd Grade classroom, Mississippi 1955
    John Phay Collection

  • Clay County West Point High School Home Economics Classroom, Mississippi 1956

    Clay County West Point High School Home Economics Classroom, Mississippi 1956
    John Phay Collection

  • Jones County Friendship School, 1st and 2nd Grade Classroom, Mississippi 1956

    Jones County Friendship School, 1st and 2nd Grade Classroom, Mississippi 1956
    John Phay Collection