JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
AGE OF THE COMMON MAN
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Question
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Dorothea Dix
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Horace Mann
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Elizabeth Cady Staton
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Detailed explanation-1: -The work of early pioneers like Dorothea Dix was instrumental in the establishment of institutions dedicated especially for the care of the mentally ill. Originally from the United States, she became acquainted with the idea of humane treatment of the mentally ill during her visit to England.
Detailed explanation-2: -Dix successfully lobbied state governments to build and pay for mental asylums, and her efforts led to a bill enlarging the state mental institution in Worcester. She then moved to Rhode Island and later to New York to continue her work on prison and mental health reform.
Detailed explanation-3: -Dorathea Dix: The Asylum Movement She took a job teaching inmates in an East Cambridge prison, where conditions were so abysmal and the treatment of prisoners so inhumane that she began agitating at once for their improvement.