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Monitorial System
Developed in the 19th Century by Andrew Bell and Joseph Lancaster. The children were split where the top group was taught by a qualified teacher and then they would spend time teaching the lower groups. -
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The Rise of Universal Education
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Emma Willard
Opened up her own school for girls in Troy, New York.
This school is still functional.
She traveled to promote female education.
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Booker T Washington
Was born into slavery in Virginia. -
Morrill Act
U.S. Congress provided grants of land.
It granted each state 30,000 acres for each of its congressional seats.
As long as the colleges specialized in "agriculture and the mechanic arts" -
Booker T Washington Education
Graduated from Hampton with high marks. He taught at his old grade school while attending Wayland Seminary in Washington, D.C. -
Tuskegee Institute
Was opened and became one of the leading schools in the country. -
W.E.B. Du Bois
First African-American to earn a doctorate from Harvard University
He wrote his first book, "The Philadelphia Negro" a few years later. He believed that black Americans needed to accept racial discrimination and earn the whites respect. -
Plessy vs Ferguson
The Supreme Court decision of Plessy v. Ferguson was "separate but equal." Schools were supposed to be equal beforehand but it wasn't upheld until this event. -
