https://padlet.com/essence_perkins/rcs63x1ypeh Essence Perkins en-us 2016-11-01 03:06:47 UTC 2025-10-17 07:09:44 UTC hello@padlet.com essence_perkins https://padlet.com/essence_perkins/rcs63x1ypeh/wish/134382035 Mann started the Mass Bd. of Ed. and pushed for the idea of free public schools w/ trained teachers. The stated goals were to provide opportunities for all as well as teaching democracy and social values, but, clearly, social control of immigrants and training a skilled, docile industrial work force also played an imp role. Spread across the North, but was less effective in the West and had little impact on the South]]> 2016-11-01 03:09:41 UTC https://padlet.com/essence_perkins/rcs63x1ypeh/wish/134382035 essence_perkins https://padlet.com/essence_perkins/rcs63x1ypeh/wish/134382057 A reformer and pioneer in the movement to treat the insane as mentally ill, beginning in the 1820's, she was responsible for improving conditions in jails, poorhouses and insane asylums throughout the U.S. and Canada. She succeeded in persuading many states to assume responsibility for the care of the mentally ill. She served as the Superintendent of Nurses for the Union Army during the Civil War.]]> 2016-11-01 03:10:01 UTC https://padlet.com/essence_perkins/rcs63x1ypeh/wish/134382057 essence_perkins https://padlet.com/essence_perkins/rcs63x1ypeh/wish/134382084 American transcendentalist who was against a government that supported slavery. He wrote down his beliefs in Walden. He started the movement of civil-disobedience when he refused to pay the toll-tax to support him Mexican War.]]> 2016-11-01 03:10:29 UTC https://padlet.com/essence_perkins/rcs63x1ypeh/wish/134382084 essence_perkins https://padlet.com/essence_perkins/rcs63x1ypeh/wish/134382131 An evangelist who was one of the greatest preachers of all time (spoke in New York City). He also made the "anxious bench" for sinners to pray and was was against slavery and alcohol.]]> 2016-11-01 03:11:03 UTC https://padlet.com/essence_perkins/rcs63x1ypeh/wish/134382131 essence_perkins https://padlet.com/essence_perkins/rcs63x1ypeh/wish/134382198 Tecumseh, a Shawnee chief who, along with his brother, Tenskwatawa, a religious leader known as The Prophet, worked to unite the Northwestern Indian tribes. The league of tribes was defeated by an American army led by William Henry Harrison at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811.]]> 2016-11-01 03:12:06 UTC https://padlet.com/essence_perkins/rcs63x1ypeh/wish/134382198