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Seperated inmates by type. They also began to teach the inmates subjects such as geometry, psychology, geograohy and many others
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Alexis de Tocqueville visits the prisons and notes how awfully they were treated this starts the reform for the prison system
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Pennsylvania has tax supported public school system
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The first all female prison opens in Mt. Pleasant
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Horace Mann become the first massuchusetts secertary board of education
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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.
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Dorothea Dix sent a letter to massuchusetts legislature hoping to improve the conditions in prisons
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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 persues 9 southern states to have hospitals for the mentally ill
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By 1850 there were 80,985 public schools, 91,966 teachers and 119 colleges
