Educational advances

• Tax supported primary schools were scarce in the early years of the Republic. • Aristocrats felt that it was not there concern to educate the lower class. 1. They felt that their children would grow up with "brats." 2. They were afraid that poor children would be armed with votes. • Tax-supported public education triumphed between 1825-1850. 1. Laborers demanded instruction for their children. 2. Rising manhood suffrage aided the tax-supported public education. • The average schoolhouse was one room, one stove, …

…'s a small advances in woman's education was made. • Emma Willard-Established the Troy Female seminary. • Oberlin College in Ohio in 1837 opened their doors to men, women, and blacks. • Mary Lyon-Established an outstanding women's school, Mount Holyoke Seminary. • Adults went to private subscription libraries to get more education. • Traveling lectures helped to promoted learning, Lycum Lecturing Association. • The lectures provided platforms for speakers in: 1. Science 2. Literature 3. Moral Philosophy • Magazines flourished in the pre civil war years.