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colonial period
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first public school
Boston establishes a Latin School to provide a classical education, similar to the free grammar schools in Boston, England -
french and indian war
French and Indian War: Final conflict in the ongoing struggle between the British and French for control of eastern North America. The British win a decisive victory over the French on the Plains of Abraham outside Quebec and, by the Treaty of Paris 1763; they formally gained control of Canada and all the French possessions east of the Mississippi. -
Boston massacre
Boston Massacre: British troops fire into a mob, killing five men and leading to intense public protests -
Boston Tea Party
Boston Tea Party: Group of colonial patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians board three ships in Boston harbor and dumped more than 300 crates of tea overboard as a protest against the British tea tax. -
Navy is established
The Constitution of the United States, ratified in 1789, empowered Congress "to provide and maintain a Navy." In the year 1794 Congress first acted on that power, in response to international crises, by authorizing the procuring and manning of six frigates. -
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Early National Period
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first president
• Washington inaugurated
• Judiciary Act
• French Revolution begins
• Washington’s Cabinet
• Samuel Slater
• Bill of Rights
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Common School Movement
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free public school
something like modern American public schools developed in the 1840s, when a majority of voters in the northern regions of the United States decided that it would be wise to create state-mandated and locally controlled free schools. Once this model of schooling prevailed, the stage was set for the creation of an inclusive free-school system in the United States. -
irish immigrants flood the U.S.
1 million Irish Catholics had immigrated to US – potatoes famine – established their own schools -
law outlawing discrimination
Gov. Henry Gardner signs a bill to law: “In determining the qualifications of scholars to be admitted into any public school or any district school…no distinction shall be made on account of race, color or religious opinions of the scholar -
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1866 to now
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world war 1
the united states enters world war one -
ww 1 ends
a year after entering the war, world war one ends -
ww2
Germany invades Russia- (DECEMBER) JAPANESE ATTACK PEARL HARBOR – U.S. DECLARES WAR ON JAPAN
- HITLER DECLARES WAR ON U.S.
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ww2 ends
Atomic bombs dropped (fat man and little boy)- Japan surrenders
- (November) War Crimes Trials begin in Germany
