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Westward Expansion
Provided opportunities for the poor and landless to start over by pulling up stakes and heading west. [Link text] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAWqgSFQB3Q -
The Common School Movement
Attempt to make education available to all children in the United States -
Massachusetts law makes all grades of public school free to all
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Andrew Jackson Elected President
Andrew Jackson Elected President of the United States -
New England Asylum for the Blind
First school open for the blind -
First of William Holmes McGuffey's readers is published
Most influential textbooks -
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First Board of Education
Headed my Horace Mann -
Normal Schools
Creation of two year institutions developed to prepare prospective elementary teachers -
Nations First Compulsory School Attendance Law
Massachusetts became the leader in education raising teachers salaries by 50% and creating the fist compulsory law with the guidance of Horace Mann -
Pennsylvania Training School for Feeble-Minded Children
The US government begins funding this school for children with intellectual disabilities -
First Free Municipal Library
The Boston public library opens to the public -
First Kindergarten in the US
Watertown, Wisconsin founded by Margarethe Schurz -
National Teachers Association
Founded by forty three educators in Philadelphia -
Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species is Published
Caused controversy in schools with the idea of evolution -
Abraham Lincoln Elected President
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Civil War Begins
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The First Morrill Act becomes Law
Donates public land to colleges that benefit agriculture and the mechanic arts -
13th Amendment Passed
Abolished Slavery -
Civil War Ends
Educational institutions in the south are closed due to the disturbance and poverty
