The 19th-century common school movement in the United States

will learn about the 19th-century common school movement in the United States at a time when the country was industrializing and becoming an established republic. This module continues to address themes of education for democratic citizenship and economic development.

1. According to the texts, what was the purpose of schooling in the nineteenth-century United States?
2. According to the texts, how did capitalism and Protestantism influence the development of public schools in the United States?
3. According to the texts, how did Robert Owen’s utopian, communitarian education theories differ from prevailing nineteenth-century views about education?