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**Important Historical Events (1860 - 1900)** 
 * 1860** - March 6, delivers an impassioned political [|speech on slavery] in New Haven, Connecticut. Also in March, the 'Lincoln-Douglas Debates' published.

[|Nominee for president - 1860] **May 18, 1860** - Nominated to be the Republican candidate for President of the United States. Opposes Northern Democrat Stephen A. Douglas and Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge. In June, writes a [|longer autobiography.]

[|The first by Mathew Brady - February, 1860] **November 6, 1860** - Abraham Lincoln is elected as 16th U.S. president and the first Republican. Receives 180 of 303 possible electoral votes and 40 percent of the popular vote.

**Dec 20, 1860** - South Carolina secedes from the Union. Followed within two months by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas. []
 * March 4, 1861** - Inauguration ceremonies in Washington. President Lincoln delivers his [|First Inaugural Address.]

== =Civil War Video= []
 * April 12, 1861** - At 4:30 a.m. Confederates open fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston. The Civil War begins. Civil War time line: [] []



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**Homestead Act of 1862: []**

=Lincoln met with his cabinet on July 22, 1862 for the first reading of a draft of the Emancipation Proclamation.=
 * Emancipation Proclamation: [] **

Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890: []




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President Lincoln Assassinated April 1865: [|http://home.att.net/~rjnorton/Lincoln75.html] **





General Allotment Act 1887(Dawes Act): []


 * Hatch Act of 1887: [] **

**Important Educational Events, People, & Movements (1860-1900)**

1852-First compulsory attendance laws were passed in Massachusetts, the birthplace of the common school.

1879- Lieutenant Richard Henry Pratt began the first off-reservation school, The Carlisle Indian School. [|Richard Henry Pratt: 1840–1924]

Virtual Tour of the School Lesson Plan

[|Art drawings by Carlyle students]
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Kindergarten in the United States

** **[|Friedrich Froebel: 1782-1852]**

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[|Margarethe (Meyer) Schurz: (1833-1876)]

1859-Elizabeth Peabody opened the first formal kindergarten in Boston.

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 * [|Elizabeth Palmer Peabody: 1804-1894]**

1870- The first free kindergarten founded by Conrad Poppenhusen in College Point, New York.



[|Conrad Poppenhusen: (1818-1883)]

1873- Susan Blow opened the first successful public kindergarten in St. Louis. media type="youtube" key="G1w-9_8ASRE" height="285" width="340" [|Susan Blow: 1843-1916]

High School in the United States 1852- [|Boston Girls’ High and Normal School] opened as a teacher training institution. University in the United States

Universities in the United States 1861- [|Yale University] bestowed the [|first Ph.D.] degrees in the United States. 1868-[|Cornell University] is attributed with beginning the university movement. **[|Ezra Cornell: 1807-1874] ** 1869-[|Harvard College] began its journey toward becoming a university.
 * [|Charles Eliot: 1834-1926]**

[|Works by Charles Eliot] 1876-[|Johns Hopkins University] was founded as the first university devoted to graduate study.

[|Manual Training] [|History of Manual & Industrial Education]


 * [|John D. Runkle]**

[|Calvin Woodward: (1837-1915)] Other Important Educators



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 * [|William Torrey Harris][|: 1835-1909]


 * [|Francis W. Parker: 1837-1902]**
 * [|Francis W. Parker School]**

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 * Life in and outside of the classroom

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What was life like during this time period? **A Solider's tale Life in 1860 Women 1860 Men 1860s Girls 1860 Civil War Soldier Women 1900 Men 1900 Girls 1900
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<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%; text-align: left;">**What was teaching like?** The Rules. Teacher Development <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%; text-align: left;"> The Classroom and Curriculum The Classroom in District Schools American Indian Education
 * What were students learning?** Curriculum in District Schools

American Indians A Nation Divided The Civil War
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Books and resources to use with your students **You Wouldn't Want to Be a Civil War Soldier: A War You'd Rather Not Fight Don't Know Much About History Dear America: When Will This Cruel War Be Over? (1864) Dear America: I thought my soul would rise and fly (1865) Dear America: West to the land of plenty(1883) Dear America: My heart is in the ground (1880) Dear America: The Great Railroad Race (1868) Dear America: A Light in the Storm (1861) Dear America: The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow (1864) Dear America: A Coal Miner's Bride (1896) Dear America: My Face to the Wind (1881) Dear America: Land of the Buffalo Bones (1873) Music of the American Civil War Fact Monster: Notable American Indians The Gettysburg Address 14th Amendment Blog

Into the West The Great American Melting Pot Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln Reads The Gettysburg Address Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 The Kansas Nebraska Act Harper's Ferry Underground Railroad Canada and Slavery Emancipation Proclamation (Barney Fife style) Emancipation Proclamation (National Geographic) 13th Amendment 14th Amendment Jim Crow Laws Black Codes Ku Klux Klan Reconstruction Acts The Freemen's Bureau The Haymarket Tragedy The Pullman Strik**e** Yellow Journalism
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America's Second Tongue Indian School: Teaching the White Man's Way Assimilation Agent American Education<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age: 1865-1905 Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race Class, Bureaucracy and Schools: The Illusion of Educational Change in America History of Early Childhood Education Origins of the Urban School: Public Education in Massachusetts, 1870-1915 The Classless Profession: American Schoolmen in the Nineteenth Century The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J.P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy The Making of an American High School: The Credentials Market of the Central High School, 1838-1939 Religion, Race, and Reconstruction: The Public School in the Politics of the 1870s The origins of the American High School American Indian Education: A History. Education and Women's Work. A History of American Higher Education. The Public and the Schools: Shaping the St. Louis System, 1838-1920. The One Best System: A History of Urban Education. To Enforce Education: A History of Founding ears of the United States Office of Education.
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1800-1860 Slavery 1860s Civil War 1860s-1900 Native Americans, Ranchers, Farmers, and Railroads 1860-1900 Industrialism 1870-1900 Gilded Age
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