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Reforming the Treatment of Prisoners and Mental Ill |
Mentally ill people were treated horribly. If they misbehaved, they would get whipped. A women named Dorothea Dix reformed all the prisoners that were locked up in chains into being free. She prepared a detailed report to the Massachusetts state legislature and they voted to create public asylums for the mentally ill. |
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Improving Education |
Horace Mann made education available to more children.In other areas, people paid taxes to go to public schools.In some towns and villages in Massachusetts, he inspired them to make more free public schools for colored black people. Citizens in Massachusetts responded to Mann's message and they voted to pay taxes to build better schools, pay teachers higher salaries, and training schools for teachers. |
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Fighting Slavery |
The problem was people owning black people to do what they want them to do and they were treated really honorable and were called slaves. How could America, the land of the free, still allow slavery? By the 1830s, growing numbers of people were asking this question and they were called abolitionists. Once the slave trade ended in 1808, northern shipping communities had no more interest in slaves. Not until women convinced the lawmakers for slavery to be illegal. |
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Equal Rights for Women |
Women that were abolitionists were trying to convince lawmakers to make slavery illegal. They worked to raise money for the movement,yet their own money and property were controlled by their fathers and husbands. They spoke out against slave beatings and preached against slavery in both white and black churches. Women worked together to overcome such barriers. Elizabeth Cady and Lucretia had decided to hold a convention and form a society to advocate the rights of women. |
