More women became teachers during the 1800's.
John Dewey helped reform the focus to the students at school. He made the dewey decimal system.
Political ideals in the 19th century also shaped a new support for the education of women. Giving them a better education. You wanted them to have the education themselves but you wanted them to go on and teach their children what they know. This was the time period when education became more important.
It took awhile because there were a few critics.
They wanted girls to go on from school to do what their mothers were doing.
Public schools became big during this time.
Many Americans moved from their farms to cities. The school year was 99 days long. A lot of students did not achieve past 8th grade. Then a lot of adults started to go back to school so that they could get a better education for job purposes. Throughout history, the percentage of students graduating has generally inclined especially in the early 20th century is when it started to show a real spike.
During the Reconstruction Era Africans were supposed to be treated equally but they still weren't. They still had less rights than whites even after the 13th 14th and 15th Amendments which were made to help give them equal rights.
13th - Slavery was unconstitutional
14th - Protect the civil liberties of recently freed slaves.
15th - Gave blacks the right to vote
Africans couldn't afford very good land but they did have some money to afford not very good land but it at least gave them a start. They weren't paid anything when working.
The KKK would kill Africans in livestock, and would attack any African that owned land and would force them to work for their previous White landlords. Their main goal was to effect the African American way of life and made life as difficult as they could for Africans, they would even burn their livestock to hurt them. They were all known to be white with a pointy hat. They burned crosses with black people on them.
About 360,000 Union soldiers died trying to give Africans equality and they did not receive after the Civil War right away. Slavery was one of them an reasons that the Civil War was fought. Their deaths were pretty much for nothing. Many people died on both sides. Part of the reason was slavery. Not the only part, economics too. For the people that died, even though they didn't get their freedom right away the soldiers didn't die without a purpose.
Entertainment was at one of it's highest points because of the amount of money that was in America. The economy was so good that people were spending a lot of money on events, traveling, and vacations. And baseball was especially something that people spent money on. It was very popular for entertainment at that time.
There were also carnivals. Lessons in singing dancing and cooking. Animals started becoming big then in like Carnivals and parades and stuff. The circus was big in the 19th century and into the 20th century.
The Wild West shows were starting to merge.
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