Historical Events

· Northwest Land Ordinances of 1785 to 1787

· Thomas Jefferson's Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge 1779

· Benjamin Rush' Free Schools

· The Frontier Movement 1986

· Horace Mann 1796-1859

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Thomas Jefferson's Bill Benjamin Rush's Free Schools

( Both planned for one school in each area containing 100 families. Both schools include reading, writing, and arithmetic. Both wanted to connect the entire school system together. Both included teaching Latin. ) ( Public support for free schools. Curriculum included reading and writing in English and German as well as arithmetic. Higher education included four colleges in which men would be taught mathematics and higher level sciences . ) ( Relied on taxes to build elementary schools in areas populated by 100 families or more. For white children the first three years of schooling were free. The bill proposed separating the state into 20 districts and wanted each district to provide a grammar school at public expense. Focused on reading, writing, arithmetic, and history. )

· These events are still significant today because we can see the effects in how our school systems are run today. We have schools that feed into one another to provide more students and our education up through high school is free.

· If I could change the outcome of one of my listed events I would change Benjamin Rush' failure of free schools because it could have drastically improved the way that our schools are run today. It would have provided even more of a head start to see how the flow of school systems work.

· What would you say is the most important result of each of your chosen events?

I would say that the most important result of both of these events is that the idea of having a school system that connected and flowed was brought up early on. It was an idea that blossomed into our school systems today and has greatly impacted the way that our systems run. Having free schooling, using tax money for schools... 

Webb. L. D. (2014). History of American education: Voices and perspectives. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.