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History Of American Education
Test Description: Defines or describes historical educational events and people.
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) First American law requiring parents and schools to teach reading.
A
Kalamazoo Case
B
Northwest Ordinance Acts of 1785 and 1787
C
Massachusetts Law of 1642
D
Old Deluder Satan Act
2) Schools first funded by local taxes and championed by Horace Mann as the best way to educate Americans.
A
Dame Schools
B
Benjamin Franklin's Academy
C
Common schools
D
Quaker Schools
3) Popular in the middle colonies and encouraged education for women.
A
Benjamin Frnaklin's Academy
B
Common Schools
C
Quaker Schools
D
Dame Schools
4) Individually tutored and sent wealthy children abroad for schooling but limited education for the poor and made it illegal to educate slaves.
A
Northwest Ordinance Acts
B
Common Schools
C
Kalamazoo Case
D
Sourhern Colonies Education Plan
5) Required territories seeking statehood to provide financial support for education.
A
Morrill Land Grant University Act
B
Kalamazoo Case
C
Massachusetts Law of 1642
D
Northwest Ordinance Acts of 1785 and 1787
6) Michigan Supreme Court case which upheld the power of Boards of Education to levy taxes to support schools.
A
Civil Rights Act
B
Brown vs. Board of Education
C
Equal Opportunity Act
D
Kalamazoo Case of 18873
7) Encouraged learning through play and is known as the Father of Kindergarten.
A
Friedrich Froebel
B
Maria Montessori
C
Benjamin Franklin
D
John Dewey
8) Believed that young children self-educate within a prepared educational environment in an individualized manner.
A
Benjamin Franklin
B
Friedrich Froebel
C
Maria Montessori
D
John Dewey
9) Reformer of the Progressive Era who encouraged child-centered curriculum and child-centered schools focusing on daily life activities.
A
John Dewey
B
Friedrich Froebel
C
Maria Nontessori
D
Horace Mann
10) Operated by women who, for a modest fee, gave boys and girls lessons in spelling and reading.
A
Common Schools
B
Private Schools
C
Dame Schools
D
Quaker Schools
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