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    women’s role was to raise and care for children and just to be a house wife. The Industrial Revolution gave women the chance to work outside of the home and be more independent. In the 1800s many women became involved in American society. Women like Dorothea Dix created things like the Asylum Movement. This was when people with mental illnesses such as insanity were thought to have a spiritual problem or were even possessed by demons. This was thought to be practical at the time because America was a very

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    more and more women had the courage to impact the nation in their own way. Although domesticity and republican motherhood were the only roles of women in America‚ some women‚ like Marry Wollstonecraft‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ Catherine Beecher‚ Dorothea Dix‚ and Sarah Grimke‚ became public speakers‚ writers‚ abolitionists‚ and some other influential role players during the early and mid-19th century. Women like Marry Wollstonecraft stood out because they refused to follow the typical American woman

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    Reform movements including religion‚ temperance‚ abolition‚ and women’s rights sought to expand democratic ideals in the years 1825 to 1850. However‚ certain movements‚ such as nativism and utopias‚ failed to show the American emphasis on a democratic society. The reform movements were spurred by the Second Great Awakening‚ which began in New England in the late 1790’s‚ and would eventually spread throughout the country. The Second Great Awakening differed from the First in that people were now believed

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    A clinic for the care and treatment of patients affected with acute or continual mental infection. A clinic in which people with intellectual ailments are handled The state’s first psychiatric hospitals opened within the overdue-1700s. japanese kingdom medical institution in Williamsburg‚ Va.‚ opened Oct. 12‚ 1773 The country’s 2nd psychiatric clinic‚ Spring Grove clinic‚ opened in Baltimore in 1798 now positioned in Catonsville‚ Md.via Kirsty Groff In u.s. new thoughts have been developed about

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    Different Era in the History of Nursing From Dark Ages to Renaissance (THE MIDDLE AGES)       During the late middle Ages (1000-1500) -the crowding and poor sanitation in the monasteries nurses went into the community. During this era hospitals were built and the number of medical schools increases.       Between 1500 and 1860 (A.D.) -the Renaissance all affected nursing. As nursing was not valued as an intellectual endeavor it lost much of its economic support and social status. The nursing

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    1. Why does Andrew Jackson oppose recharter of the second Bank of the United States? He believes that the rich people of America have too much power within the government because of the Bank of the United States. He thinks that abolishing this Bank will create less of a separation between rich and poor. 2. What positive functions were served by the bank? What were some of the bank’s negative consequences? It is a fiscally responsible way to manage the United State’s money. It regulated currency

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    During this time‚ army physicians did not favor female volunteer nurses‚ believing female nurses were inexperienced and disorganized. Several woman help elevate the status of nurses during the Civil War and on. One woman that did just that was Dorothea Dix. Dix was a school teacher that was appointed as the Superintendent of Army Nursing for the Union Army. Through her position she was able to help organized medical efforts‚ set standards for military nurses‚ and to lobby for medical supplies for

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    Battlefield. Hou‚ D. M.D. (2010) Walt Whitman: An American Civil War Nurse Who Witnessed the Advent of Modern American Medicine‚ Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health‚ 65 (4). Taylor and Francis Group Faust‚ Patricia LeVert‚ S. (2005)‚ Dorothea Dix‚ the Civil War ’s Society Encyclopedia of the Civil War Cohen‚ B

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    The temperance movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries was an organized effort to encourage moderation in the consumption of intoxicating liquors or press for complete abstinence. The movement’s ranks were mostly filled by women who‚ with their children‚ had endured the effects of uncontrolled drinking by many of their husbands. These organizations used many arguments to convince their countrymen of the evils of alcohol. They argued that alcohol was a cause of poverty. They said that drunk

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    people with mental dysfunction emphasized moral guidance‚ humane‚ and respectful treatment. Asylums were built to care for people with mental illness. Moral treatment in the U.S. began at this time led by Benjamin Rush of Pennsylvania and later Dorothea Dix.

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