Prison Reform
Woman who dedicated her life to improving conditions for prisoners and the mentally ill
Who is Dorothea Dix
As a result of this reform, many states outlawed...
What are cruel punishments
Someone who was in favor of ending slavery
What is an abolitionist
Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized this
What is the Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
The father of public education
Who is Horace Mann
Prisoners were often times locked in
These were created to treat and give proper care to the mentally ill
What are mental health facilities
Who is Sojourner Truth
Men controlled their wives...
What is a single room
Individuals who were imprisoned for owing money, sometimes as little as $20
What are debtors
Someone who works to correct failings or injustices
What is a reformer
Spoke out about freeing all slaves and has the newspaper The Liberator
Who is William Lloyd Garrison
The Declaration of Sentiments state...
What is that all men and women are created equal
Before education reform, teachers received
What is little education and/or pay
Dorothea Dix was exposed and horrified at prison conditions when she...
What is taught Sunday school at a jail
Children, adults, and who else were locked away in crowded prisons?
Who are the mentally ill
A leader in the abolitionist movement who started the newspaper, the North Star
Who is Frederick Douglass
Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass
Horace Mann wanted to increase educational opportunity for everyone, but especially for
Who are women and African Americans
Special justice systems were created for...
What/who are children
Journalist who checked herself into an insane asylum to report on conditions and treatment
Who is Nellie Bly
Three ways in which abolitionists (and other reformers) could inform people on what they were advocating for
After being denied by 29 med schools and finally being accepted to 1, this individual went on to open her own hospital and med school
Who is Elizabeth Blackwell
By 1850 in many states, who attended free public schools
Who are (white) boys