Prison Reform
Directions: Below, you will see a total of four videos (two from Hilton and two from Locricchio). Choose one video to watch from your class, either A or B. After watching the video, answer the questions that are directly below. Be sure to write your answers in complete sentences on your Reform Movements packet, under the appropriate section.
Hilton Group A
1. What was Dorothea Dix an active member of?
2. What forced Dix to take frequent breaks and close her school in 1836? 3. When and where did Dix realize prisons needed reforming? 4. Why did Dorothea make an appeal for 12 million acres of land in 1846? 5. What did Dorothea Dix become the first ever woman to do? |
Hilton Group B
1. What did Dix do to make these conditions better?
2. How were the mentally ill people treated? 3. What were the acts that Dix wanted to be completed in these prisons? 4. What did education reform accomplish? 5. What was a downside of education reform? |
Locricchio Group A
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Locricchio Group B
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1. Why was Dorothea Dix so interested in mentally ill? 2. Why did congress deny two of her bills when she first made it? 3. How long did it take her to go to all the states to get the bills passed? 4. Why did no one know about these mentally ill people? 5. Why were the ill people in jail? |