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In which ways did reformers attempt to change social institutions?, Arts -…
In which ways did reformers attempt to change social institutions?
Prisons and Asylums-1820-1830's is when it all started to rise
Mental Hospitals Dorothea Dix
a former school teacher launched a cross country crusade after finding mentally ill persons locked up
Then one state after the other started build their own asylum to give professional treatment to these patients
Dorothea Dix was never trained as a nurse, but she was shaped in the way to help-especially with mental heath.
Dorothea Lynde Dix had a mental illness herself, she suffered from episodes of malaise which today would be known as clinical depression. That's why she wanted to help others who had mental illnesses of their own.
Schools for Blind and Deaf Persons
Thomas Gallaudet opened a school for the deaf and Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe started a school for the blind.
Penitentiaries
These took the places of crude jails
Education
common school movement
morace mann
Emma Willard
teachers
Mary Iyon
Catherrne Beecher
Women's Rights Movement
Temperance
Many Americans believed drinking was immoral and was a threat to the nations success
Abstinence Pledge, 1845
Arts
Poetry and Literature
Moby Dick
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edgar Alan Poe
Romanticism vs. Realism
The Scarlet Letter