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Eastern state penitentiary
Seperated inmates by type. They also began to teach the inmates subjects such as geometry, psychology, geograohy and many others -
Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville visits the prisons and notes how awfully they were treated this starts the reform for the prison system -
Tax supported public schools
Pennsylvania has tax supported public school system -
First female prison
The first all female prison opens in Mt. Pleasant -
Horace Mann becomes secertary board of education
Horace Mann become the first massuchusetts secertary board of education -
start of asylums for the mentally ill
the beginning of the superintendence of Dr.John Galt at eastern lunatic asylum, in Williamsburg, Virginia, this was the first publicly supported psychiatric hospital in America. -
Dorothea Dix sends report to legislature
Dorothea Dix sent a letter to massuchusetts legislature hoping to improve the conditions in prisons -
Kids are forced to go to school
Kids are forced to go to school at least 3 hours every day and only work part time for factories -
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Dorothea Dix Persues southern states
Dorothea persues 9 southern states to have hospitals for the mentally ill -
Growth of Public schools
By 1850 there were 80,985 public schools, 91,966 teachers and 119 colleges
