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Chapter 2

Colonial America Timeline

1606: First Charter of Virginia. 1607: Jamestown established. 1619: First Black slaves arrive in Virginia. 1620: Pilgrims sail to America. 1624: Virginia becomes first royal colony. 1626: New York Colony established. 1630: Massachusetts colony established. 1635: First Latin grammar school established in Boston. 1642: Act of 1642. 1647: Old Deluder Satan Act. 1691-1692: Salem witch trials. 1712: Slave uprising in New York. 1730s: Great Awakening. 1733: Georgia colony established (13th). 1754-1763: Seven Years' War.

American Revolutionary Era Timeline

1773: Boston Tea Party. 1776: Declaration of Independence. 1779: Jefferson's Bill for the General Diffusion of Knowledge. 1783: Webster's American Spelling Book. 1787: U.S. Constitution. 1789: George Washington becomes first president.

Early National Era Timeline

1800: Thomas Jefferson elected president. 1808: Congress abolishes international slave trade. 1812: War of 1812. 1815: Battle of New Orleans. 1828: Jackson elected president. 1830s: Southern states prohibit teaching slaves literacy skills. 1830: Indian Removal Act. 1831: Trail of Tears begins. 1837: Horace Mann becomes MA's first Secretary of Education. 1839: First normal school established in MA. 1850: Sarah Roberts v. City of Boston. 1857: National Education Association established. 1860: Common school systems established in northern states.

Post Civil War & Reconstruction Timeline

1860: Lincoln elected president; SC secedes. 1861-1865: Civil War. 1865: Freedmen's Bureau established. 1868: 14th Amendment ratified. 1873: First public kindergarten established in St. Louis. 1875: Civil Rights Act of 1875. 1879: Carlisle boarding school opened. 1896: Plessy v. Ferguson.

CHAPTER 3

The Progressive Era Timeline

1896: Dewey's Lab School opens. 1903: Du Bois publishes The Souls of Black Folk. 1909: NAACP established. 1914-1919: World War I and introduction of intelligence testing in U.S. 1916: Dewey publishes Democracy and Education; American Federation of Teachers established. 1920: 19th Amendment passed. 1924: Congress grants Native Americans citizenship 1929: Stock market crash. 1932: FDR elected president. 1939-1945: World War II.

Post World War II & Civil Rights Era Timeline

1947: Mendez v. Westminster School District. 1950: McCarthyism begins. 1954: Brown v. Board of Education. 1957: Russia launches Sputnik; Little Rock Nine. 1958: National Defense Education Act. 1961: Freedom Rides. 1964: Civil Rights Act of 1964; Head Start established. 1965: Voting Rights Act of 1965; Elementary & Secondary Education Act. 1968: American Indian Movement founded. 1972: Title IX Higher Education Act. 1975: Education for All Handicapped Children Act.

The 1980s and Beyond Timeline

1979: President Carter creates Federal Department of Education. 1981: President Reagan establishes National Commission on Excellence in Education. 1983: A Nation at Risk released. 1989: Teach for America founded. 1991: Minnesota enacts first charter school law. 2002: President Bush signs No Child Left Behind Act. 2009: President Obama signs Race to the Top into law. 2009: Common Core State Standards launched. 2015: Every Student Succeeds Act signed into law. 2020: Global pandemic forces many schools to pivot to remote instruction.

 

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