Dorothea Dix and the Transformation of Prisons and Asylums

Antebellum Reform: Temperance, Education, and Asylums

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Investigate Dorothea Dix's legislative memorials that exposed horrific conditions in almshouses and established dedicated state mental health facilities, including the Trenton State Hospital in New Jersey.

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Antebellum Reform: Temperance, Education, and Asylums

9th Grade · Social Studies · US-NJ-SS

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Evaluate the religious, social, and political origins, strategies, successes, and setbacks of moral and social reform movements across New Jersey and the nation.

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6.1.12.CivicsDP.3.aNew Jersey Social Studies Standards · 6th Grade

Compare and contrast the successes and failures of political and social reform movements in New Jersey and the nation during the Antebellum period (i.e., the 1844 State Constitution, abolition, women’s rights, and temperance).