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Education in the Thirteen Colonies during the 17th and 18th centuries varied considerably. Public school systems existed only in New England. In the 18th Century, the Puritan emphasis on literacy largely influenced the significantly higher literacy rate (70 percent of men) of the Thirteen Colonies, mainly New England, in comparison to Britain (40 percent of men) and France (29 percent of men).
The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America during the 17th and 18th centuries. In the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), they established their independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain as the United States of America.
By the time of the American Revolution, there were 40 newspapers in the United States (at a time when there were only two cities – New York City and Philadelphia – with as many as 20,000 people in them). [5] [6] [7] The first American schools in the Thirteen Colonies opened in the 17th century. [8]
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Before the war, Britain held the thirteen American colonies, most of present-day Nova Scotia, and most of the Hudson Bay watershed. Following the war, Britain gained all French territory east of the Mississippi River, including Quebec, the Great Lakes, and the Ohio River valley.
The colonial colleges are nine institutions of higher education chartered in the Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolution before the founding of the United States. [1] These nine have long been considered together, notably since the survey of their origins in the 1907 The Cambridge History of English and American Literature.
The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts was a Church of England missionary society that sent workers to the colonies to educate the white children, and also to reach out to "heathens" such as the slaves. The teaching mission was to teach how to, "read the Holy Scriptures and other pious and useful books; to instruct them ...
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