History

Question 1

When was the Common School Revival (reshaping of definitions)?

Answer 1

1837

Question 2

What law required all children to read and write?

Answer 2

Massachusetts Law of 1642

Question 3

What was Harvard’s original goal?

Answer 3

To train ministers

Question 4

When did Martin Luther begin the Reformation in Germany (post the 95 theses)?

Answer 4

October 31, 1517

Question 5

Court case in 1980:

Answer 5

Stone v. Graham
👩🏻‍⚖️ KY legislature ordered posting Ten Commandments in schools to expose students to historical code which had formed basis of civil laws in the western world for over 2000 yrs.
👩🏽‍⚖️ U.S. Supreme Court ruled: “If the posted copies of the Ten Commandments are to have any effect at all, it will be to induce the school children to read, meditate upon, perhaps to venerate and obey the Commandments.”

Question 6

When was Websters American Spelling Book (the Blue-Backed Speller) written?

Answer 6

1783

Question 7

Court case in 1962:

Answer 7

Engle v. Vitale
👩🏼‍⚖️ U.S. Supreme Court attacked long-standing tradition of school prayer by striking down a voluntary prayer from NY schools

Question 8

When was the New England Primer used?

Answer 8

1690-1900

Question 9

What was the first book used to teach reading?

Answer 9

The New England Primer

Question 10

What court case attacked a long-standing tradition of school prayer by sticking down a prayer from NY schools?

Answer 10

Engle v. Vitale (1962)

Question 11

What three things happened in 1859?

Answer 11

⚰️Horace Mann died
📕Charles Darwin wrote Origin of the Species
👶🏼John Dewey was born.

Question 12

What court case introduced “separation” (of church and state) doctrine/

Answer 12

Everson v. Board of Education (1947)

Question 13

Court case in 1963:

Answer 13

Abington township v. Schempp
👨🏽‍⚖️ U.S. Supreme Court struck down a PA school policy which said, “Each school… shall be opened by the reading, without comment, of a chapter in the Holy Bible… Patriciaation in the opening exercise… is voluntary.”

Question 14

What did the 10th Amendment do?

Answer 14

Gave control of education to the states, NOT the federal government.

Question 15

Ben Franklin started the Academy in what year?

Answer 15

1751

Question 16

What court case struck down a PA school policy which said, “Each school… shall be opened by the reading, without comment, of a chapter in the Holy Bible… Patriciaation in the opening exercise… is voluntary.”?

Answer 16

Abington township v. Schempp (1963)

Question 17

What was the first college in the Colonies?

Answer 17

Harvard

Question 18

When was the National Teacher’s Association established?

Answer 18

1857

Question 19

When did John Calvin start the Academy of Geneva?

Answer 19

1557

Question 20

When was the Old Deluder Satan Act passed?

Answer 20

1647

Question 21

What court case forbid the Ten Commandments from being posted in KY schools?

Answer 21

Stone v. Graham (1980)

Question 22

The literacy rate in _____ was 90%.

Answer 22

1776

Question 23

When did Harvard become Unitarian?

Answer 23

1805

Question 24

When was the 10th Amendment passed by Congress?

Answer 24

1791

Question 25

When was Harvard started?

Answer 25

1636

Question 26

Court case in 1947:

Answer 26

Everson v. Board of Education
👨🏼‍⚖️ Introduced “separation” doctrine
👨🏻‍⚖️ Separation of Church and state

Question 27

When did John Dewey sign the Humanist Manifesto?

Answer 27

1933

Question 28

When was the McGuffey Reader made?

Answer 28

1836

Question 29

When was Massachusetts founded?

Answer 29

1630

Question 30

When was the Northwest Ordinance?

Answer 30

1789

Question 31

What was the literacy rate in 1776?

Answer 31

90%