what was education like in the 1840s?

Question

i am doing a project on the education of america around 1836-1846. the project is for a pre-reading activity i am doing at school for Adventures of Tom Sawyer. i would like to know what they used for books and what they used to write with. i would also like to know what they learned for example: founding of america, founding of england, or the indians.
thank you very much,
maez

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The issues in education at this time did not differ much from the issues of today. Bilingual education for the children of German immigrants was mandated by the city of Cincinnati, Ohio after the recently arrived German population demanded it. The separation of church and state was a matter of strong debate. Up until the influx of Irish immigrants, the mainly Protestant population favored teaching from the King James version of the Bible, and the texts often had anti-Catholic passages in their readings. However, by 1840 nearly half the people in New York City were foreign born, many of whom were Irish and Catholic. Bishop John Hughes demanded that the city provide money for Catholic schools. In 1844 there were anti-Catholic riots in Philadelphia against the attempts by the Catholics in the city to end Bible-reading in the public schools. Catholic churches and homes of immigrants were burned and looted, and the riots had to be put down by the militia.
African-Americans were fighting for the right to a quality education. In the South it was against the law to teach a slave to read.
In the North the ***** children were segregated in the school system. When Benjamin Roberts sought to enroll his five-year-old daughter Sarah in the elementary school closest to their home in Boston, Sarah was refused admittance. Mr. Roberts took his case to the Massachusetts courts, and in 1849 the Massachusetts State Supreme Court ruled against Sarah Roberts. The arguments both for and against this case were to be used in the federal courts for another 100 years. In 1855 the Massachusetts legislature passed a law prohibiting racial segregation in the state's schools, the first such law in the United States. Women were entering the teaching field in increasing numbers, but their salaries were still half that of their male counterparts. Most women served under the supervision of a male principal.
Much of the teaching was done by rote memorization and penmanship was perfected by writing verses in a copybook. Some were trained by the Central Committee for Promoting National Education and sent to such frontier states as Iowa and Wisconsin as missionary teachers. On November 6, 1845 the Limestone Springs Female High School was opened in South Carolina, a pioneering occurence in the South.


This decade saw the first American woman earn a medical degree as Elizabeth Blackwell graduated from the Geneva Medical College of New York in 1849. In 1847 the tuition-free Academy of New York City, later to become City College of New York, was chartered by the New York State Legislature. Some institutions of higher learning founded between 1840 and 1849 were Notre Dame (1842), Ohio Wesleyan University (1842), University of Mississippi (1844), Baylor University (1845), State University of Iowa (1847), University of Wisconsin (1847), and Otterbein College (1849).

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