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Early Common School Era
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1808
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Elizabeth Seton establishes a
school for girls in Baltimore
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1821
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The first public
high school in the United States is established
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1826
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The first public high schools for girls open in New York and
Boston
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1828
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Work begins on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
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1828
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The first
western president, Andrew Jackson, is elected
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1833
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Oberlin
College in Ohio is founded, the first coeducational college in the United States
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1830s
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1833
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American
Anti-Slavery Society is created
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1836
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American Temperance
Union is created
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1837
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The State Board
of Education is created in Massachusetts; Horace Mann is its first executive
secretary
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1838
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The first
state normal school in the United States opens in Massachusetts
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1838
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Mount Holyoke
College, the first seminary for female teachers in the United States, is
founded in South Hadley, MA by Mary Lyon; it opens the following year with 87
students
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1840s
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~1840
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Blackboards
are introduced, prompting educators to predict a revolution in education
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1844
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Horace
Mann describes the Prussian school system in his Seventh Annual Report
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1846
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The
"potato famine" begins in Ireland
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1847
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Production of McCormick
reapers begins
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1848
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The
first women's rights convention is held at Seneca Falls, New York
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1850s
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1852
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Massachusetts
is first U.S. state to mandate compulsory school attendance
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1852
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In North
Carolina, the first state superintendent of schools is appointed in a
southern state
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1859
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Horace Mann dies
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1859
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John Brown
attempts to start slave insurrection at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia
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