Representation+in+History

=So in history...=

Yes, issues with history run back ages and ages ago, before any of us were born. It is very easy to take education for granted now a days but back before, during, and right after the American Civil War many education issues were dealt with so as to improve education status and to improve the literacy of the population. We find ourselves with the Education Reformation led my Horace Mann. Mann was a reformer and an abolitionist who led the United States to engage in mandatory education. Yes, Horace Mann had this system set up before the Civil War, but nevetheless the reformation was taking place throughout the century. The country was swept by this educational reformation, which can be associated to the revolution that was taking place, and as America was transitioning from an agrarian economy to an industrial one.

This new form of education was centralized, state-wide, free and revolutionary in so many ways! Women were allowed to teach, students had plenty of books, the given education was designed to Americanize the immigrants of the country, and school buildings/facilities were utilized.

During the Civil War, children were engaged in school and they were kept up to date by the stories that they heard in school. Something that took place at the time were //orphan schools// which were made for those whose fathers were killed in war. It was astounding to see that war patriotism was drawn into the class and even more, to see that math problems at school consisted of "If one Confederate soldier kills 90 Yankees, how many Yankees can ten Confederate soldiers kill?"

A sad fact was that a mere 4 states actually were for public education (North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Alabama). And even though Mann had proposed that public education was now available for everyone, the poor children had sketchy learning from their parents in field schools (one-room school houses in abandoned fields). Even a very few blacks received handy education; skills that would help them as slaves. The Morrill Act of 1862 was a big step towards education because it gave money so as to endow funds for colleges.

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