American Education In The 1820 And 1830's

Americas Battle for Education

Can you imagine America without an educational system? Well I can’t! Well that’s what our country had to face while it was in its infancy. When the war for independence successfully birthed this nation it had no educational system in place. Just how did early America handle education? Being that education mean to develop mentally, morally, or aesthetically especially by instruction. The way that America handled education can be split into the following four topics which are, where they learned, what they learned, the decline of village schools, and the increase in education for girls. Today we directly benefit from the reformer’s movements.

As a young boy in early America, your educational choices were very limited and based upon your family’s economic status. You would probably have found yourself

During the 1820 and 1830’s when the great awakening filled America. During this era many new religious groups were formed that had different view on the bible. Many of these religious groups thought that the principles that village schools taught were dull and inefficacious. An even greater threat that village schools encountered was the immigration of Roman Catholics. The bible translation that village schools used was the King James translation which was protestant. Catholic had three unsuitable choices for their child’s education, either to attempt to change Americas educating method, send their child to a school that teaches protestant mortalities or not send your child to a school at all. Reformers including Horace Mann set out to change this by creating free public schools. These public schools kept with the basic principles like the Ten Commandments but left out any religious ideas that caused divergence. Well most people appreciated a free education some strong believers disliked Mann’s compromise but found it hard to refuse the