education news entertainment changes in us Flashcards
by 1914, most states required children to have t
schooling
around 1900 schools began practicing a new set of educational ideas and beliefs that was ______ by ____
progressive education, John Dewey
progressive education
is that you should learn by doing and have hands on learning and together working, allowing one to easily work with other members of society in the future
the 1863 Morill Act
granted states land they could sell to raise money
states used money from the Morill Act
start schools called land-grant colleges(they accepted women, others no)
by 1910 almost 40%of American colleges were composed of
women
Booker t Washington attended ______ and founded the _______
Hampton Institute, Tuskegee Institute in Alabama
colleges such as ________ and ______ provided higher education for African Americans
Hampton Institute, Howard University
scientist George Washington Carver joined the _______ in 1896 and his research changed _______ with hundreds of his products coming from ______
Tuskegee staff, agriculture, peanut
1881- Andrew Carnegie said he would
build a public library in any city that would pay for it
two new approaches to writing
regionalism and realism
realism
focuses on the lives of ordinary people
regionalism
focuses on a particular region of a country
who wrote about city slums
joseph crane
who wrote about miners and hunters in the northwest
Jack london
who described upper-class easterners
edith wharton
first African American writer to achieve fame
paul laurence dunbar
_______ wrote a series of books for young adults
Horatio alger
paperback books appeared in
the late 1800s
