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| 1 | activist who helped improve conditions of mental patients | 9 sets | |
| 2 | reformer who was a pioneer in the movement for better treatment of the mentally ill | 6 sets | |
| 3 | rights activist on behalf of mentally ill patients - created first wave of us mental asylums | 6 sets | |
| 4 | quietly determined reformer who substantially improved conditions for the mentally ill | 5 sets | |
| 5 | reformer who worked for improved treatment of the metally ill | 4 sets | |
| 6 | superintendent of nurses for union army | 4 sets | |
| 7 | reformer who helped improve conditions of mental patients | 3 sets | |
| 8 | along with clara barton, helped to get women to work in military hospitals during the civil war. | 3 sets | |
| 9 | advocate for prison reform and humane treatment for the mentally ill | 2 sets | |
| 10 | helped the disabled and worked for prison reform. set up hospitals for the mentally ill. separated prisoners and ended debtor prisons | 2 sets | |
| 11 | an american activist on behalf of the indigent insane who, through a vigorous program of lobbying state legislatures and the united states congress, created the first generation of american mental asylums. during the civil war, she served as superintendent of army nurses. | 2 sets | |
| 12 | 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 superintendant of nurses for the union army during the civil war. | 2 sets | |
| 13 | schoolteacher who made it her life's work to educate the public about the poor conditions for both the mentally ill and for prisoners | 2 sets | |
| 14 | created first mental asylums | 2 sets | |
| 15 | (aj) , activist who helped improve conditions of mental patients | 2 sets | |
| 16 | american activist who created a string of mental institutes. | 2 sets | |
| 17 | this reformer organized large numbers of women to serve as military nurses | 2 sets | |
| 18 | new england teacher and author; spoke against inhumane treatment of insane prisoners | 2 sets | |
| 19 | supported the humanitarianism reform movement; massachusetts schoolteacher and nurse; advocated for state funded hospitals for the mentally ill | 2 sets | |
| 20 | united states social reformer who pioneered in the reform of prisons and in the treatment of the mentally ill; superintended women army nurses during the american civil war | 2 sets | |
| 21 | reformer who worked for improved treatment of the mentally ill | 2 sets | |
| 22 | reformer who worked with mentally ill | 2 sets | |
| 23 | helped to get women to work in military hospitals during the civil war | 2 sets | |
| 24 | was an american activist on behalf of the indigent insane who, through a vigorous program of lobbying state legislatures and the united states congress, created the first generation of american mental asylums | 2 sets | |
| 25 | reform: mentally ill and prisons, seperated rooms for men and women, gave prisoners useful work to do, special schools for juvenille criminals, and houses of correction for people who had committed minor crimes | 1 set | |
| 26 | worked as a nurse for the union army. | 1 set | |
| 27 | wanted improve the conditions in prisons and mental institutions | 1 set | |
| 28 | reformer for the mentally ill and prisoners | 1 set | |
| 29 | started the nursing corps for women in the north/ cleaned up the nursing profession, and yet was called the dragon because she was so mean | 1 set | |
| 30 | the reformer for conditions of prisoners and people with disabilities | 1 set | |
| 31 | wanted to improve the conditions in prisions and metal institutions | 1 set | |
| 32 | women who reformed prisons and helped the mentally ill | 1 set | |
| 33 | helped improve care of the mentally ill | 1 set | |
| 34 | women in 1843 that petitioned in mass- legislature idescribing cells so foul that visiteros were driven back by the stench, turned legislative stomachs hearts | 1 set | |
| 35 | a middle-class reformer who helped change the prison system | 1 set | |
| 36 | found that mentally ill people are in jail for crimes and she made the first mental hospital | 1 set | |
| 37 | mental health pioneer | 1 set | |
| 38 | (1802-1887) american philanthropist and social reformer, she helped change the prison system nationwide by advocating the development of state hospitals for treatment for the mentally ill instead of imprisonment | 1 set | |
| 39 | headed more than 3,000 women who se3rved as paid union nurses | 1 set | |
| 40 | headed 3000 woman who served as paid nurses | 1 set | |