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Educational Advancements In the Antebellum Period

Educational Advancements In the Antebellum Period. Jake Latham. Educational Timeline. 1785: Georgia charters first state university 1795: University of North Carolina becomesthe first state university to hold classes 1821: Troy’s female seminary

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Educational Advancements In the Antebellum Period

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  1. Educational Advancements In the Antebellum Period Jake Latham

  2. Educational Timeline • 1785: Georgia charters first state university • 1795: University of North Carolina becomesthe first state university to hold classes • 1821: Troy’s female seminary • 1823: first normal school established • 1825: Free School Society established • 1830: first American high school • 1837: Oberlin Collegiate Institute becomes first co-ed college • 1839: Mell becomes principal of Oxford Classical and English School • 1839: First public teacher training school established • 1850: Texas has 97 academies • 1850: Hotchkiss founds Mossy Creek Academy • 1852: Massachusetts passes first school attendance law in America

  3. Education (in the broad sense) • “Most Americans, apparently, found that the schools, despite their manifest inefficiencies and problems, met their own, and by implication, their country’s, educational needs satisfactorily” -Robert Church and Michael Sedlak

  4. Divided Into 3 districts • District schools • Academics • Colleges

  5. 4 classifications of teachers • Preachers • Young College Graduates • Indentured Students • Men/Women who dedicate their lives to become teachers

  6. Sources • http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/17841865/history/educate.htm • PEP server • http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/TimePeriods/Antebellum.html • http://mgagnon.myweb.uga.edu/students/Filliat.htm

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