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because of her broken home of an abusive father and an alcoholic family. Dorotheas grandmother took her in.
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Dorothea taught her first class if 16 children, ages 6-8
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after teaching for awhile dorothea dicided to make her own private school patrionized by the wealthy. she taught poor and neglected children at home.
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when she got sick, dorothea was unable to teach for six years. but she wrote many childrens books.
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when dorothea goes to england for health reasons she finds out about the mental insitiution reform movement
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after seeing the mental institution reform movement in England, she wants to see what she can do in America.
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dorothea told the lagislature about the bad conditions of the mental hospitals and convinced them to pass a bill to expand the state's mental hospital.
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she conitues her investigatoins in New Hampshire, Louisiana, Illinois, and North Carolina.
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After America, she investigated the abuses of the meantal institutions in Scottland, laeding to the formation of the Scottish Lunacy commission.
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