A | B |
Dorothea Dix | convinced Massachusetts to build mental hospitals |
Josiah Quincy | Boston mayor who championed prison reform |
temperance campaign | a group wanting to stop the evils of alcohol abuse |
Prohibition | a campaign to ban alcohol use entirely |
Second Great Awakening | religious reformers who wanted to improve American society |
Communal Living | all members of the community live together and are equal |
Socialism | all property is owned by everyone in the community - nothing belongs to the individual |
Joseph Smith | Founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints |
Shakers | communal religious group founded by Ann Lee |
Massachesetts reformer who spoke out against locking children up with hardened criminals | Josiah Quincy |
House of Refuge | institutions that took in children who had broken the law |
"persons confined in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens! Chained, naked, beaten with rods." | Dorothea Dix |
Problems connected with alcholism | crime, poverty, abuse of wives and children |
John Cocke of Virginia | led the crusade for prohibition |
Fifteen Gallon Act | Banned the sale of less than 15 gallons of alcohol at a time |