The Colonial Period:1642-1776

• Massachusetts- “Old Deluder Satan Act of 1647

• Middle Atlantic

• South

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Deluder Satan Act required every town of 50 or more families to appoint a reading and writing teacher. 100 or more appoint a Latin teacher for entry into Harvard

Middle Atlantic: private and parochial

South : no attention to developing schools on a large scale basis