1800-1848 12/3/2024 Flashcards
What did Dorothea Dix advocate for the changes of?
Prisons, mental hospitals, and schools
Why did Dorothea Dix advocate for Mental Hospitals?
People with mental illness who did nothing wrong were thrown in prison with actual criminals. Instead she wanted to build mental hospitals where the patients could get professional treatment.
Why did Dorothea Dix advocate for State supported prisons? What did she also want prison to implement?
She thought solitary confinement was too cruel as punishment and given too often in prisons.
A rehab system
Why did Dorothea Dix advocate for special schools?
People who were blind or deaf didn’t get proper education in regular schools
Who was Dorothea Dix?
School teacher from Massachusetts who advocated for reforms
Who was Horace Mann?
Leading advocate for public school and founder of the Massachusetts board of education. Also advocated for moral education and teacher preparation. Also created the college system
Why did Horace Mann advocate for public schools?
So people could be well educated, more teachers have jobs, no child labor
What is the Cult of Domesticity?
The idealized view that women were the moral leaders in the home and would take charge of the household and children.
What movement arose due to high alcohol consumption?
Temperance.
What did reformers believe was the cause of social ills?
Alcohol consumption.
What organization was created to promote total abstinence from alcohol?
The American Temperance Society.
Which demographic was most active in the Temperance movement?
Middle class women.
Who joined the Temperance cause, believing alcohol led to crime and poverty?
Politicians and factory owners.
Fill in the blank: The Temperance movement aimed to bring about total _______.
abstinence.
True or False: The Temperance movement was primarily supported by lower-class women.
False.
