The Print Revolution: Penny Press and Rising Literacy

Antebellum Educational, Asylum, and Institutional Reform

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Analyze how steam-powered rotary presses, inexpensive newspapers (The Sun, The Herald), and magazines expanded the reading public.

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Antebellum Educational, Asylum, and Institutional Reform

5th Grade · Social Studies · US-MA-SS

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Analyze the common school movement, the rise of mass print culture, and humanitarian campaigns to reform prisons, asylums, and education for individuals with disabilities.

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USI.T4.2.cMassachusetts Social Studies Standards · 5th Grade

Horace Mann’s campaign for free compulsory public education, increased literacy rates, and the growth of newspaper and magazine publishing