Margarethe Meyer Schurz used the training she gained in Germany to create the first kindergarten in the United States. Schurz and her sister Bertha trained under Friedrich Froebel, a groundbreaking educator who created the term “kindergarten” and argued for the importance of games and songs in socializing and educating young children. After settling in Watertown, Wisconsin, Schurz created a German-language kindergarten in 1856, which continued to run until German-language schools were closed during World War I. Schurz also taught her methods to Elizabeth Peabody, who set up the first English-language kindergarten in Boston in 1860. After moving to Washington, D.C., when her husband was elected to the US Senate, Schurz died of childbirth complications in 1876, at age forty-three.
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