The industrial revolution takes hold, changing both the U.S. economy and its educational system. Public schools, kindergarten, and teacher training are all introduced in this century. Other states soon followed. By mid-century, public high schools absorb their Latin grammar school predecessors.
Towns begin to establish separate secondary schools for girls.
Noah Webster publishes An American Dictionary of the English Language. Congress adopts it as the national standard in 1831. The typewriter and the fountain pen are patented. The first state board of education is established in Massachusetts, and Horace Mann is its first secretary. Friedrich Froebel founds the first kindergarten in Blakenburg, Germany.