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James K Polk, Eleventh U.S. President
(1845-1849)
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The Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen
California is officially a U.S. territory.
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Postage Stamps started in the U.S.
Benjamin Franklin was on the 5 cent stamp and
George Washington was on the 10 cent stamp.
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Education: Training Teachers
"Theory and Practice of Teaching or The
Motives and Methods of Good School Keeping,
by David P. Page, published in 1847, became the
standard text in teacher education" in what were
called normal schools. "Admission to most normal
schools required an elementary education and was
free to residents of the state" and lasted for
two years. By 1865 more than 50 normal
schools were in operation and by 1900 a reported
350 normal schools were operating in 45
states." By 1900 normal schools also
started training secondary teachers and
admission required high school completion and
the normal school program extended to three
years. By the 1920s the normal school
program extended to 4 years and were being
called state teachers' colleges."
Source: Foundations of American Education,
Sixth Edition page 150-151 / L. Dean Webb,
Arlene Metha. Published by Pearson Education.
2010
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Natural Resources: John Muir arrived
in California and began to champion saving the
Sequoia trees
and
Yosemite Valley.
BBC Atlas of the Natural World North America
Land of the Eagle "Searching for Paradise"
Documentary 2006.
Technology:
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In 1831 Cyrus Hall McCormick invented the
reaper, "a machine that made possible for the
first time mechanical harvesting of standing
ripe grain." He sold his first reaper ten
years later in 1841. By 1847 he had so many
sales that he moved his production facility to
the frontier town of Chicago. Source: Harvester
World 27, no 7 (July 1936).