1. Public Education
Addie Bihm
Skylar Moss

2. Effects Industrialization and rise of factory system
Spread of merchant capitalism
Expansion and economic influence of banks and insurance
Transportation
Population growth
Westward migration

3. Overall Education Objectives of these schools were very poor
“…lacked adequate supplies, paid teachers poorly, were unclean and lacked discipline” (Education 1)
Prepare women for life
Prepare men for work
Business skills vs. trade/industrial skills

4. Education of White Boys and Girls
“Education was not a primary focus of Americans within the antebellum period” (1).
“Most Americans, apparently, found that the schools, despite their manifest inefficiencies and problems, met their own, and by implication, their country’s, educational needs satisfactory” (1).
District schools, academies, and colleges

5. Teachers
4 classifications of teachers after schools had come under the care of the state: preachers, young college graduates, indentured servants, and men and women who dedicated their lives to teaching for many years.

6. Education of Native Americans
Until under control of missionaries
Indian Civilization Act
Removal act of 1830-Trail of Tears
Reestablishment of schools in 1841/1842
No influence on young Native Americans

7. Common School Movement
Henry Barnard and Horace Mann
Pushed for public education of all elementary-age white children
Establish a system of publicly supported elementary and secondary schools

8. Changes 94% of the North and 83% of the white in South could read
% %
Development of mass teaching materials
Increase in the number of female teachers
Rise of academies
Increase of colleges and college-educated students
90% literacy rate in 1860

9. 2014 Education 99% literacy rate 5.7% in higher education
21.3% attended college
Many more choices now

10. Works Cited Primary Secondary
Jefferson, Thomas. America History , 13 august Web. 28 Oct <
Jefferson, Thomas, Public Papers, Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library. .edu/jefferson/texts/
Secondary
Corey, Melinda. "education during the antebellum period." In Rohrbough, Malcolm J., and Gary B. Nash, eds. Encyclopedia of American History: Expansion and Reform, 1813 to 1855, Revised Edition (Volume IV). New York: Facts On File, Inc., American History Online. Facts On File, Inc.  ItemID=WE52&iPin=EAHIV084&SingleRecord=True (accessed October 24, 2014).
"Education." American Indian ed.  
“Education.”  Dictionary of American History.  1976 ed.
"Education: Post Colonial." Encyclopedia of North American Indians ed.  
"Friedrich Fröbel -." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Web. 28 Oct < Friedrich Froebel created Kindergarten and designed the Froebel Gifts and Blocks. Web. 28 Oct <