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    during the reform‚ this‚ also encompasses educational reforms‚ Utopian experiments‚ and Penial institutions. If they were all pessimistic‚ would they have achieved such profound changes and refinements? Would Ann Lee have founded the shakers? Would Dorothea Dix have made mental asylums far more reasonable? No‚ they all knew that with the proper initiative they could change the characteristics of each reform movement into a much better state than in the past. The average families looking for a model

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    cotton-cultivating South through the use of moral suasion as revealed by Patrick Reason’s engraving showing the deprivation of the Negro race in regards to their rights as humans‚ and later‚ political freedoms. The penitentiary movement began by Dorothea Dix reformed the nation’s prisons and insane asylums to improve the living conditions and treatment of criminals‚ paupers‚ and emotionally disturbed persons. Separate penitentiaries were later instituted for the reformation of juvenile delinquents

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    Prison Reform in the 19th Century So‚ every time I re-read a source or try to write‚ I keep thinking back to what I am actually trying to argue. I’ve finally figured out my argument: Hawthorne portrayed Hollingsworth as a failure because he did not believe in the prison reform efforts of the time. I came to this through looking at a lot of parallels in my sources‚ and finding different reasons for why my hypothesis is true. The two types of prison reform in the early 1800s were meant to reform

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    a. Choices – temperance (moderate use) or legislation i. Women’s usage actually decreases D. Jails – not just punishment but help “penitentiaries” (penance) or “correctional facilities” E. Mentally ill – Dorothea Dix – better treatment living

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    Aaron Philbrick The Reform Movement 1: Temperance: moderation of self‚ restraint in action‚ statement and self-control or PROHIBITION. Americans were worried about the effects of alcohol. 1st. This movement first urged people to stop drinking hard liquor and limit drinking beer and wine to small amounts. Later the movement wanted to ban the sale of alcohol-banning became a major goal‚ it was banned in the 18th Amendment‚ which was later repealed by the 21st Amendment. 2: Women’s

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    War‚ it affects the world and everybody involved; the soldiers‚ government‚ and citizens. Most people only focus on the impact of it on the soldiers‚ but never take the time to think how it impacted the women at home and on the battlefield. The idea of a woman’s role in society has been ever-changing‚ and still is to this day. There was always a sense among women that they lacked in jobs and respect when compared to their male counterparts‚ but society never saw it‚ until the outbreak of the Civil

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    The reform movement during this era consisted of numerous events. Jackson put into action a new prison “correctional” system that helped young delinquents rather than punishing them which was created by Dorothea Dix. He also eliminated the elites in politics and this created a rise in the middle class. This rise of the middle class gave fair and equal opportunities to everyone and people were being elected by popular vote and not by being appointed. A veto

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