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RELIGION

—Education revolved around religion and agriculture from 1600-1900.

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Children went to school for 2 reasons:

    - Learn about the Bible

    - Learn specifics about agriculture

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Christian moral education was more important in many of the Americans’ eyes than learning reading, writing, and arithmetic.

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Even the ABC’s were taught through the Bible.

Religion and the ABC's

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—The ABC’s were learned by stories from the Bible. 

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Verse for each letter

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Teacher would explain the verse by telling the story or reading it from the Bible

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Example: For A – In Adam’s fall, we sinned all.  This taught about Adam and Eve eating from the tree of knowledge, breaking God’s rule, and humans becoming sinful.

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