Education: How did
they teach their young and educate the next generation of leaders? |
Do not memorize dates. Notice the dates only so you notice if the founding is early or late in colonial development. For example, notice that the South has a later educational development than New England, an area that was initially settled about the same time.
Issue
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New
England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI) |
Middle
Colonies (DE, NJ, NY, PA) |
South
(GA, MD, NC, SC, VA) |
What did Massachusetts and some Quakers do about
basic education for the young and what other basic education was occurring? |
Massachusetts set the pattern to support public
education in this country. 1647 law required towns to support a school. Similar laws = CT and Plymouth. Indenture, done locally with people known to the
parents, was a means of training for the young. |
Some were educated in dame schools set up in
womens homes. Dame = widows or unmarried women. Teaching = way they could earn a living. |
Private tutors for those with money. Reminder: Few white children and few towns. |
What were the colleges and when and why were they
formed? |
Harvard (1636) Cambridge, MA established as a
school for ministers - Congregationalist Yale (1701)-New Haven, CT established as school
for ministers, with Harvard viewed as too liberal − Congregational College of Rhode Island (or Brown) (1764)
Baptist. Dartmouth NH (1769) Congregational. |
Princeton (or College of New Jersey) (1746) −
established because other schools viewed as too liberal - Presbyterian Columbia (or Kings College) (1754) NY secular
curriculum - Anglican Queens College (or Rutgers) (1766) Dutch Reform Univ. of PA (or Academy and College of Philadelphia)
(1755) secular curriculum |
William and Mary College (1693) Williamsburg, VA
established by Anglicans as an academy to train clergymen No college level until 1720s. |
New England ·
CT Connecticut ·
ME Maine ·
MA Massachusetts ·
NH New Hampshire
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Middle Colonies ·
DE Delaware ·
NY New York ·
NJ New Jersey ·
PA Pennsylvania |
South ·
GA Georgia ·
MD Maryland ·
NC North Carolina ·
SC South Carolina
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