Antebellum Reform Movements
OXY MAN
Mentale Hospitals
- Dorothea Dix exposed inhumane treatment, of the mentally ill.
- States created mental hospitals, not prisions, to give the mentally ill a proper help
Temperance
People believe alcohol abuse is the cause of the mentally ill.
Dorothea Dix
She is the one who exposed inhumane treatments on the mentally ill.
Womens Rights
Women are fighting for their right to vote and to be set equal to men.
Prision
Prisoners were treated inhumanly no matter what they did.
Why they did this because they do not care about them and could care less what happened to them while they are in the prisons.
Illinois State penitentiary
Public Education
People are fighting for their children to go to school so they can have a future in America and so their children wont be homeless.