Name: More to History: Teacher Appreciation Week
Duration: 62
Description: In the early 19th century, America had no standard of education - every town and city could teach their students in different ways. Until Horace Mann had an idea.

In the early 19th century, America had no standard of education—every town and city could teach their students in different ways. Until Horace Mann had an idea.

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In the early 19th century, America had no standard of education - every town and city could teach their students in different ways. Until Horace Mann had an idea.

<p>Though the 19th century saw the rise of populism, the labor movement and Jacksonian democracy, it also ushered in the Gilded Age, when men like Cornelius Vanderbilt and J. P. Morgan wielded vast control over politics and business.</p>


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