HISTORICAL EVENTS

Historical Events Paper

Historical Paper Events

Colonial Period

Imperial power usually has little invested in the colonial colleges. Typical trading approach emphasized the export of agricultural products and raw materials from the provinces to their homeland. Although the sequence of kings and queens to promote cultivation and export of tobacco, rice, indigo, cotton, colleges, and prospered as an unlikely crop in America.

The colonists established institutions of higher learning for several reasons. New England settlers included many alumni of the royally chartered British universities, Cambridge and Oxford and therefore believed education is important. In addition, the Puritans emphasized learned clergy and educated civilian leadership. Their forecast generated by Harvard College in 1636. Between the foundation of Harvard University and began the American Revolution, the colonists chartered nine colleges and seminaries, although only one in the South.

Religion has given impetus to the creation of the colonial colleges. As the First Great Awakening in the 1730's 1770's started growing in a wider range of Protestant churches, each denomination is often desired their own seminary. In addition, each colony tends to favor a particular denomination, and so the new college was important for regional development as well. Presbyterians in New Jersey, founded the College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton) (Lemann, 1999). College of William and Mary in Virginia supported with strong Anglican orientation, reflecting a settlement that colonies of the landowners from England. Baptists, who were expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony and settled in Rhode Island, have created their own college, but in an unusual move would not require religious tests for admission. Other specific religious groups such as Methodists and Quakers, was fascinated by the college after the builders faced hostility in many colleges(Jencks, 2006).

Although the colonial colleges border agencies, expanding access to higher education, according to modern standards of the colonial period remained the elite and the exclusion. Only white Christian men were permitted to university. Women and African Americans were denied the participation of law and custom, but colleges were Native Americans in a missionary capacity. Evangelism of the Protestant groups attracts donors, although with time devotion to the colonial colleges in the curriculum on the wane. In order to continue receiving financial support, however, the college argued that by educating young Christian missionaries will be available to preach Christianity to Native Americans.

Higher Education in the New United States

With the founding of the United States government policy in relation to the English chartered ...