Labor Unions
Public Education
Public Elementary and High Schools
Social Work
Dorothy Dix
100
What is a group of workers who ban together to seek better working conditions?
A labor union
100
Who was the first leader to suggest a public school system?
Thomas Jefferson
100
At what time were public elemtary schools available?
By the end of the 1800's
100
When the COS was founded in 1869 where was the meeting held?
At the home of Lord Lichfield
100
How many hospitals did Dorothea Dix have built?
32
200
What were the labor unions' goals that they wanted to acheive?
Less working hours and higher wages
200
What did Thomas Jefferson think was the appropriate way for schools to function?
-governments should control schools -schools should have no religious biases -any person can attend
200
Which state passed the 1st compulsory school attendance laws?
Massachusetts
200
What did the Invalid Children's Aid Association do?
It cared for physically handicapped children.
200
What did Dorotea Dix decide to teach?
Sunday School at a women's jail
300
What did the court case in 1842, Commonwealth vs. Hunt, do to help labor unions?
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decided that labor unions were legal and they were allowed to join together and hold strikes
300
Who was the head of Massachusetts State Board of Education who helped bring the topic of public schools to people's attention?
Horace Mann
300
What did the compulsory school attendance require children to do?
It required children to go to at least one public elementary school.
300
What was the first thing that the COS did?
They Provided financial help to families that needed it.
300
What did she find out while working at the women's jail?
That mentally ill were kept in the same facilities as prisoners.
400
What were labor unions thought of before the court case, Commonwealth vs. Hunt?
Conspiracies
400
What did Horace Mann think public schools would do to children?
-Make children good citizens -bring together the society -prevent crime and poverty
400
What did high schools eventally replace?
Latin Grammar Schools
400
Where was the first Employment Enquiry Office located?
In Soho
400
What matter did Dorothea Dix take to court?
That the mentally ill were kept in the same facilities as prisoners.
500
What were two obstacles that labor unions faced that made their movements fall apart for a period of time?
The Panic of 1837 and the Civil War
500
What form of education dominated the United States before public school systems were established?
Public schools and charitable and religious institutions
500
Where was the first public high school located?
in Boston
500
Who was the man that was appointed to to lead the Invalid Children’s Aid Association?
Allen Dowdeswell Graham
500
Where were three places that they established hospitals?
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, and Maryland
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