KIN 2501 : KIN 2501 Test 2
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Keep them in health and to strengthen bodies keep them in promoting physical activity: u. s. at peace, government established, inventions: telegraph, etc, railroad easier transportation. School: few years after first university harvard, absolutely no sunday amusements, games for children had moral teachings, taverns were a major social center. Pennsylvania: came in search of religious freedom, quakers: society of friend (william penn, banned pass times and amusements at the time, this territory welcomed settlers from several european countries (sweden, Germany, france, scotland, ireland: peace loving ice skate, swim, hunt, and fish. Taverns: the social center of town, meeting, socializing, entertainment, and diversion from work, accessible for everybody, animal baiting, cockfighting, billiards, darts, dice were popular, betting, gambling. Early education 1600s: elementary, reading, writing, math, early on no girls or physical activities, secondary school latin grammar school, harvard college higher education, 1st academy founded by franklin (1749, preparing men for vocation, law, medicine.