Education in Colonial America

Question 1

Cultural exchange

Answer 1

Pre dominantly one way - europeans forced beliefs on Native Americans

Question 2

Cultural Reproduction

Answer 2

reproduce the institutions of the Europeans in North America (churches)

Question 3

The players

Answer 3

upper class, rich, men

Question 4

Education

Answer 4

• only the european upper class could attend secondary education
• college was created so they didn’t have to go back to Europe
• Used to maintain religious, cultural, linguistic heritage –> immediate financial benefactors
• other schooling was to educate children to protect their way of life (religion and moral based)

Question 5

Old Deluder Satan Act

Answer 5

towns of sufficient size needed to provide educate win reading and writing, shift of communities paying teachers