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Antebellum Educational, Asylum, and Institutional Reform

5th Grade · Social Studies · US-MA-SS

8 lessons

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Analyze the common school movement, the rise of mass print culture, and humanitarian campaigns to reform prisons, asylums, and education for individuals with disabilities.

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us-maUSI.T4.2.dMassachusetts Social Studies Standards · 5th Grade

the movement to provide supports for people with disabilities, such as the founding of schools for students with cognitive, hearing, or vision disabilities; and the establishment of asylums for people with mental illness