Education and Religion

Education in the early 1800's varied widely. New England had the most schools but the south has very few schools. The school rooms were pretty small and didn't fit slot of students in it. If you were rich you got into a really good school, but if you were poor then you went to a low school.

There were all-female academies and some college name were the Troy Female Seminary and it was opened up by Emma Willard. But the first college for all females is amount Holyoke College and this college is meant to develop skills in service to society.

There were elementary schools and high schools. You could attend depending on your social status and how wealthy you were. If you were rich you could attend a prestigious school and if you were poor or middle class you just attended a plain school.

The topics they taught in school were American and British literature and reading lessons. They also taught moral and social values. They also had schools for the special need kids.

There wasn't really a law saying specific people could participate in religion or not. So basically anybody that wanted to follow a religion could join one and be a part of a religion. They did practice freedom of religion by following any religion they wanted to.

There were churches and preachers in the 1800's.