1. Jake Latham

2. 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. “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. District schools Academics Colleges

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

6. http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/17841 865/history/educate.htm http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/17841 865/history/educate.htm PEP server http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/TimePeriods/Antebellum.ht ml http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/TimePeriods/Antebellum.ht ml http://mgagnon.myweb.uga.edu/students/Filliat.htm