MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
MANIFEST DESTINY
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Helped Vision Impairment
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The liberator
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Samuel Gridley Howe is known as the first director of the Perkins Institution for the Blind in Massachusetts and a notable abolitionist during the U.S. Civil War era.
Detailed explanation-2: -Howe was known particularly for his success in teaching the alphabet to Laura Bridgman, a student who was blind and deaf. He also championed the improvement of publicly funded schools, prison reform, humane treatment for mentally ill people, oral communication and lipreading for the deaf, and antislavery efforts.
Detailed explanation-3: -Samuel Gridley Howe (1801-1876) was born in Boston on November 10, 1801. He was educated at the Boston Latin School. His father, having decided that he could send only one of his three sons to college, had all three read a chapter from the Bible and chose the best reader, who happened to be Samuel.