Dorothea Dix

By jchand1997

  • Date of Birth

    Dorothea was born

  • Moving

    Dorothea and family move to Vermont

  • Moving again

    moves in with her grandmother

  • School

    becomes a teacher

  • Teaches 2 classes in Dix mansion

  • Book

    Dorothea publishes a book

  • New School

    Dorothea Dix opens a secondary school

  • Quits teaching

    Dorothea has to quit working because of an illness

  • Change in Life

    Dorothea dix begins teaching sunday school in a womens prison

  • Grant

    asked Congress to grant more than 12 million acres of land

  • vetoed

    President Franklin Pierce vetoed the bill

  • Dix returns to U.S.

  • Civil War

    When Civil War broke out she volunteered as a nurse and bcame known as superintendent of nurses

  • Malaria

  • Dorothea dies