| A | B |
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| Northwest Ordinance 1787 | Congress set aside land to get money for schools |
| Massachusetts 1647 | passed a law requiring towns to provide schools |
| Southern schools | often taught by local ministers |
| Reformers argued education was required | so voters could make good decisions |
| Horace Mann | Encouraged common schools to prevent poverty |
| "Education does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility to the rich, it prevents them from being poor." | Horace Mann |
| McGuffey's Reader | a school book that taught American values |
| By 1860 how many public high schools existed across the United States? | forty |
| Which groups did not get a regular education? | Women, African Americans, physically challenged |
| What were girls taught at may schools? | Morals and manners |
| Elizabeth Blackwell 1849 | first woman in U.S. to receive a medical degree |
| Prudence Crandall's Quaker School opened in 1830 to whom? | African American girls |
| What happened to Prudence Crandall for teaching African American girls? | She went to jail |
| Thomas Gallaudet | 1817 Opened a school for the hearing-impaired |
| Samuel Gridley Howe | opened the Perkins Institute for the Blind 1831 |
| Thomas Jefferson | "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be." |
| Common School Movement | Reformers wanted to raise school standards and support schools with taxes |
| Why did Americans object to common schools | People ojbected to paying taxes |
