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Dorothea Dix birth date
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she moved in with her grandmother
because of her broken home of an abusive father and an alcoholic family. Dorotheas grandmother took her in. -
Dorothea taught her first class
Dorothea taught her first class if 16 children, ages 6-8 -
opened a school in boston
after teaching for awhile dorothea dicided to make her own private school patrionized by the wealthy. she taught poor and neglected children at home. -
illness
when she got sick, dorothea was unable to teach for six years. but she wrote many childrens books. -
esablished a school for girls in boston
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dorothea goes to england
when dorothea goes to england for health reasons she finds out about the mental insitiution reform movement -
starts invesitigating mental institutoins in massachusetts
after seeing the mental institution reform movement in England, she wants to see what she can do in America. -
reports to the Massachusets legislature
dorothea told the lagislature about the bad conditions of the mental hospitals and convinced them to pass a bill to expand the state's mental hospital. -
lobbies other states
she conitues her investigatoins in New Hampshire, Louisiana, Illinois, and North Carolina. -
travels to Scottland
After America, she investigated the abuses of the meantal institutions in Scottland, laeding to the formation of the Scottish Lunacy commission. -
appointed superintendant of female nurses by the secretary of war
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Dorothea Dix death