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Booker T. Washington, a leading figure in late 19th and early 20th century Black America Booker T. Washington was the dominant black political and educational leader in the United States from the 1890s until his death in 1915.
By the early 19th century with the rise of the new United States, a new mood was alive in urban areas. Especially influential were the writings of Lydia Maria Child , Catharine Maria Sedgwick , and Lydia Sigourney , who developed the role of republican motherhood as a principle that united state and family by equating a successful republic with ...
John Forsyth Sr. (October 22, 1780 – October 21, 1841) was a 19th-century American politician from Georgia.He represented the state in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, and also served as the 33rd Governor of Georgia.
The Spanish had largely withdrawn from the territory by the early 18th century, although they had settlements in nearby Florida. They had little influence historically in what would become Georgia. (Most Spanish place names in Georgia date from the 19th century, not from the age of colonization.) Georgia was founded by James Oglethorpe in 1732 ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 February 2025. Education in the United States of America National education budget (2023-24) Budget $222.1 billion (0.8% of GDP) Per student More than $11,000 (2005) General details Primary languages English System type Federal, state, local, private Literacy (2017 est.) Total 99% Male 99% Female 99% ...
Peter Early (June 20, 1773 – August 15, 1817) was an American lawyer, jurist and politician who served as governor of Georgia and as a two-term U.S. congressman during the early 19th century. Bust of Early at the Washington-Wilkes Historical Museum
Judith Sargent Murray published the early and influential essay On the Equality of the Sexes in 1790, blaming poor standards in female education as the root of women's problems. [39] However, scandals surrounding the personal lives of English contemporaries Catharine Macaulay and Mary Wollstonecraft pushed feminist authorship into private ...
Public education expenditures in the late 19th and early 20th centuries varied dramatically across regions with the western and southern provinces spending three to four times as much as the eastern provinces. Much of the inter-regional differential was due to historical differences in land taxes, the major source of revenue. [115]