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| Dorothea Dix | born on the Maine frontier in 1802 |
| 14 years old | Dorothea Dix opened her own grade school |
| 8th grade | Dorothea Dix was qualified to teach school after she finished this grade |
| mentally ill | reason why some of the the women, that Dix visited in jail, had been put in prison |
| Mass. state legislature | officials Dix turned to so that prison conditions might be improved for mentally ill |
| VT,Conn.,NY,LA,IL,NC | States that Dix brought the treatment of mentally ill issue too |
| Prison reform | another area the Dix set out to correct |
| being unable to pay their debt | 5 out of 6 people in northern jails were there for this reason |
| results of prison reform | built new prisons, cruel punishment banned, |
| What Thomas Jefferson knew | a democracy needs educated people |
| Before the 1820's | schools were rare, teachers poorly paid, crowded conditions |
| NY State | This state led the way in reforming public education |
| Horace Mann | led the fight for better schools in Mass. |
| Mass. colleges | 3 were opened to train teachers |
| Schooling ended | N. and S. schools stopped at the 8th grade |
| Boston & NY | they set up separate schools for black students |
| Lincoln University | 1st African American college-Oxford Penn. |
| Thomas Gallaudet | he set up a school for the deaf in Hartford Conn. |
| Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe | Invented a way to print books with raised letters for the blind-(braille) |
| Timothy Shay Arthur | wrote, "Ten nights in a Barroom and What I Saw there" |
| "Ten Nights in a..." | addressed the seriousness of alcoholism in the 1800's |
| "temperance movement" | an 1820's campaign against drinking alcohol |
| "Maine Laws" | Maine banned the sale of alcohol |
