Chapter 12: Antebellum Culture and Reform

Question 1

Horace Mann’s Reforms

Answer 1

Brinkley, pg.330

1) The greatest of the educational reformers was Horace Mann, the secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education, which was established in 1837.
2) Mann and his followers believed education was the only way to “counterwork this tendency to the domination of capital and the servility of labor.” It was also the only way to protect democracy, for an educated electorate was essential to the workings of a free political system.
3) Mann reorganized the Massachusetts school system, lengthened the academic year (to sixth months), doubled teachers salaries (although he did nothing to eliminate the large disparities between the salaries of males and females), enriched the curriculum, and introduced new methods of professional training for teachers.

Question 2

Prigg v Pennsylvania 1842

Answer 2

Wikipedia
1)Prigg v. Pennsylvania was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that the Federal Fugitive Slave Act precluded a Pennsylvania state law that prohibited blacks from being taken out of Pennsylvania into slavery, and overturned the conviction of Edward Prigg as a result.