Family Education In The 1800s

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Family America through it first 170 years of existence was a volatile place to live. It was a grand experiment which the people as the subjects and the experimenters(Alexander Hamilton). Very few things experienced more change than family structure. When the country was first formed society was dominated by men, with females as second class citizens. Children were largely left to their own devices until they started an apprenticeship of some sort (). By the end of 1946 females had most if not all of the same legal rights as men, and children education had become formalized as had their right to get their education. Children experienced the most changed across the years. Education, originally left to parents or apprentices master, was formalized