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Over Bootlegging Alcohol, and the disobeying of the Temperance movement

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Bootleggers often enhanced their engines of their getaway cars to escape law enforcement, and these vehicles were later raced against each other. True or false?

Which was NOT a hiding place used by individual bootleggers when transporting booze via automobile to Seattle?

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Bootleggers often enhanced their engines of their getaway cars to escape law enforcement, and these vehicles were later raced against each other. True or false? Which was NOT a hiding place used by individual bootleggers when transporting booze via automobile to Seattle?

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Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-1887) was an author, teacher and reformer. Her efforts on behalf of the mentally ill and prisoners helped create dozens of new institutions across the United States and in Europe and changed people's perceptions of these populations. Charged during the American Civil War with the administration of military hospitals, Dix also established a reputation as an advocate for the work of female nurses. Her own troubled family background and impoverished youth served as a galvanizing force throughout her career, although she remained silent on her own biographical details for most of her long, productive life.

Dorothea Dix's Early Life

Dorothea Dix was born in Hampden, Maine, in 1802. Her father Joseph was an itinerant Methodist preacher who was frequently away from home, and her mother suffered from debilitating bouts of depression. The oldest of three children, Dorothea ran her household and cared for her family members from a very young age. Joseph Dix, though a strict and volatile man prone to alcoholism and depression, taught his daughter to read and write, fostering Dorothea's lifelong love of books and learning. Still, Dorothea's early years were difficult, unpredictable and lonely.

Did you know? Louisa May Alcott was a nurse under Dorothea Dix during the Civil War. Alcott recalled that Dix was respected but not particularly well liked by her nurses, who tended to "steer clear" of her. Alcott wrote of her experiences in "Hospital Sketches," years before achieving fame with the classic "Little Women."

At 12 Dorothea moved to Boston, where her wealthy grandmother took her in and encouraged her interest in education. Dix would eventually establish a series of schools in Boston and Worcester, designing her own curriculum and administering classrooms as a teenager and young woman. In the 1820s Dix's poor health made her teaching increasingly sporadic, forcing her to take frequent breaks from her career. She began to write, and her books-filled with the simple dictums and morals that were thought to edify young minds-sold briskly. By 1836, persistent health problems caused Dix to close her latest school for good.

Dorathea Dix: The Asylum Movement

That same year Dix traveled in England with friends, returning home months later with an interest in new approaches to the treatment of the insane. She took a job teaching inmates in an East Cambridge prison, where conditions were so abysmal and the treatment of prisoners so inhumane that she began agitating at once for their improvement.

Prisons at the time were unregulated and unhygienic, with violent criminals housed side by side with the mentally ill. Inmates were often subject to the whims and brutalities of their jailers. Dix visited every public and private facility she could access, documenting the conditions she found with unflinching honesty. She then presented her findings to the legislature of Massachusetts, demanding that officials take action toward reform. Her reports-filled with dramatic accounts of prisoners flogged, starved, chained, physically and sexually abused by their keepers, and left naked and without heat or sanitation-shocked her audience and galvanized a movement to improve conditions for the imprisoned and insane.

As a result of Dix's efforts, funds were set aside for the expansion of the state mental hospital in Worcester. Dix went on to accomplish similar goals in Rhode Island and New York, eventually crossing the country and expanding her work into Europe and beyond.

Dorothea Dix:The Civil War

Dix volunteered her services one week after the Civil War (1861-1865) began. Shortly after her arrival in Washington in April 1861, she was appointed to organize and outfit the Union Army hospitals and to oversee the vast nursing staff that the war would require. As superintendent of women nurses, she was the first woman to serve in such a high capacity in a federally appointed role.

With supplies pouring in from voluntary societies across the north, Dix's administrative skills were sorely needed to manage the flow of bandages and clothing as the war wore on. Still, Dix often clashed with army officials and was widely feared and disliked by her volunteer female nurses. After months of hard work and exhaustion, she was eventually ousted from her position, stripped of authority by the fall of 1863 and sent home.

Dorothea Dix's Later Life

After the war, Dix returned to her work as a social reformer. She traveled extensively in Europe, evidently disenchanted with her experience during the war, and continued to write and offer guidance to what was now a widespread movement to reform the treatment of the mentally ill. Old hospitals were redesigned and rededicated according to her ideals, and new hospitals were founded in accordance with the principles she espoused. After a long life as an author, advocate and agitator, Dorothea Dix died in 1887 at the age of 85 in a New Jersey hospital that had been established in her honor. She is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-1887) was an author, teacher and reformer. Her efforts on behalf of the mentally ill and prisoners helped create dozens of new institutions across the United States and in Europe and changed people's perceptions of these populations.

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Dorothea Dix, and many other prison reformers to this day, have all faced a common challenge. This challenge is society as we know it. When Dorothea began to speak out against the inhumane ways prisoners were being kept, the counter argument to all people, was the fact that they were prisoners, and they deserved to be in there. This was a common thought that acted as common ¨corner¨ to go to when debating this. It was due to Dorothea, however, that the change was eventually made, and the mindset of the mentally handicapped has changed. As previously said, they were looked at as wild animals, because they acted out, thanks to her, we now have changed that, and society is accepting of the handicapped.

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Dorthea Dix and Prison Reform in the U.S.

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During the 19th century, a women named Dorothea Dix noticed something wrong with the prisons at the time. More specifically, the mentally ill. She noticed that people would throw them in jail because of their behavior, and when they were in jail, they were beaten and mistreated because of their illness. They would be put in cages like dogs, or in rooms only 14 inches wide. They were treated like animals, and it was Dorothea's goal to change that.

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As well as committing immoral acts from drinking, men could not take care of their families properly. In the early 20th century, and latest, women didn't have many rights. Because of this, they had to rely on the men in the family to take care of many things that involved leacing the house, In addiition, thte men would frequently abuse and beat their wives, just in a drunken wrath. This caused problems, and was a prime example of why there was a movement.

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Temperance Movement - Ohio History Central

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The American Civil War (1861-1865) weakened the temperance movement both nationally and within Ohio, but concerns regarding alcohol usage quickly returned upon the war's conclusion. During the late 1800s, the United States was shifting from a national economy based principally on agriculture to a more industrialized one.

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During the 19th century, and the early 20th century, many immoral actions were happening throughout the US. People wanted these actions to stop, in fear that god would no longer bless America. So what did they do? They pointed a finger at Alcohol and started the Temperance movement. Soon after, and even soon before, many christian churches were holding pledges for their attendees to go against drinking alcohol.