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1. Describe each of the following reform movements that arose in the early 1800s. Include each movement’s leaders, their motivations and goals, and your assessment of whether each movement succeeded (pp. 291-296): a. Alcohol (temperance movement) b. Public schools c. College education d. Mental illness e. Crime f. Poverty

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1. Do you agree or disagree with a complete prohibition of alcohol? Why?

2. Why do you think the south didn't support free public schooling and instead used private schools for their own children?

3. Why did Josiah Quincy want to help prisoners rather than to lock them up?

4. Why didn't the white men rebel against the schooling of African-Americans and women?

5. If the crime fit the punishment, why did Josiah Quincy want to remove children from adult prisons?

6. Why didn't anybody before, Dorthea Dix, try to help the mentally ill prisoners? 7. Why did reformers work to improve prisons and other institutions?