Dev. of American Ed.Test #1 (Chapters 1-3)

Question 0

The tremendous impact of the ___________________ Reformation and the ___________________ _________________-Reformation on social, economic, and political life is still felt today.

Answer 0

1. Protestant (Reformation)

2. Catholic Counter-(Reformation)

Question 1

The children of ________________ ______________ were admitted to schools under the Child Benefit Theory.

Answer 1

Illegal Aliens

Question 2

Who was credited with providing the philosophic principles upon which IDEALISM rests?

Answer 2

Plato

Question 3

Who made Idealism a Christian theology?

Answer 3

St. Augustine

Question 4

St. Augustine was a believer of the _____________.

Answer 4

Church

Question 5

Who is considered the father of philosophic realism?

Answer 5

Aristotle

Question 6

Who was a major founder of pragmatism?

Answer 6

John Dewey

Question 7

SPG stands for the 
S - \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ 
for the 
P - \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ of the
G - \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

Answer 7

Society for the Propagation of the Gospel

Question 8

B.F. Skinner is well known for his work in _________________.

Answer 8

Behaviorism

Question 9

The American Educational System has a _______________ history.

Answer 9

European

Question 10

Rousseau held the ____________ of a _________ belief

Answer 10

Education of a Meal

Question 11

Southern educational institutions reflected more ___________ ideals than schools in the other colonies.

Answer 11

English

Question 12

There were __________ opportunities for indentured servants, slaves, and the poverty-stricken freedmen to engage in cultural pursuits or to improve their minds.

Answer 12

fewer

Question 13

Schools for those not favored by birth were __________ in the Southern colonies.

Answer 13

limited

Question 14

In the Southern colonies, some laws required education for ___________ children but little was actually done.

Answer 14

pauper

Question 15

Dame schools were found in most colonies.

Answer 15

True

Question 16

Dame schools consisted of ______________ instruction given by a woman in her own home, usually while she carried on household duties.

Answer 16

rudimentary

Question 17

A standard instrument in the Dame schools was a _______________.

Answer 17

Hornbook

Question 18

Hornbooks were inscribed with the alphabet, numerals from 1-9, and the _________ __________.

Answer 18

Lord’s Prayer

Question 19

The middle colonies are best described by what two words?

Answer 19

1. Diversity

2. Parochialism (private schools)

Question 20

In the middle colonies, each ___________ was permitted to set up its own school system.

Answer 20

Denomination

Question 21

The northern colonies were influenced by the __________.

Answer 21

Puritans

Question 22

The ______________ Creed, is part of the educational interest of the northern colonies.

Answer 22

Calvinistic

Question 23

The New England Primer was used primarily in the southern colonies.

Answer 23

False: Northern.

Question 24

In 1647, the General Court passed its famous, ______ ______________ ________ Act.

Answer 24

Old Deluder Satan (Act)

Question 25

Boys usually entered into Latin schools around what age (after having learned to read English at home or in a lower school)?

Answer 25

Eight (8)

Question 26

All of the students in the Latin grammar school hoped to be admitted into a __________, as was the purpose of such schools.

Answer 26

College

Question 27

Racial segregation was not common before _______.

Answer 27

1950

Question 28

Colonial schools have what kind of history?

Answer 28

European cultural

Question 29

All philosophical ideas are established already.

Answer 29

False (everything is changing, and they are still being answered)

Question 30

What happened in 1647?

Answer 30

The Old Deluder Satan Act was passed.

Question 31

The Old Deluder Satan Act was passed in what year?

Answer 31

1647

Question 32

The Calvinistic Creed was a part of the educational interest of which colonies?

Answer 32

Northern

Question 33

There were fewer opportunities for WHO to do WHAT

Answer 33

WHO: indentured servants, slaves, and poverty-stricken freedmen

WHAT: engage in cultural pursuits or to improve their minds