Question

What prompted Dorothea Dix to work for reforms in jails and asylums?

a.Dix’s mother, who suffered from depression, was jailed.

b.Dix saw the cruel treatment of the mentally ill in East Cambridge jail in Massachusetts.

c.Dix’s meeting with Samuel Tuke, the founder of the York retreat for the mentally ill.

d.The split in the women’s rights movement after the Civil War.
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Answer 1

The Correct Answer Is B

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Answer 2

It should be B because in the Age of Reform, citizens realized how people from different races, religions, and medical problems were being treated and tried to help them by starting schools, teaching people with medical problems, etc.