8th Grade North and South Glogs

Here are Glogs created by 8th graders that show the differences between the North and the South.

Katie's Glog

Taylor's Glog

Zach's Glog

Alex's Glog

Holly's Glog

Matt's Glog

TJ's Glog

Koty's Glog

Joe's Glog

Joe's Glog

Sarah's Glog

Michelle's Glog

Lauren's Glog

Alex's Glog

Anna's Glog

Ceirra's Glog

Prison Reform - Sarah P

In 1841, a Boston woman named Dorothea Dix agreed to teach Sunday School in a prison. Dix was horrified of what she saw. She found inmates bound in chains and locked in cages. Most people who were in prison had debt they had to pay off and couldn't do that in prison. Children who were in jail for minor thefts were locked in jail with adults. Mentally ill were also treated this way. They were beaten in they misbehaved.
For two years, Dix had quietly gathered firsthand information about the horrors she had seen. She had prepared a report for the Massachusetts state legislature.
According to:http://www.answers.com/topic/prisons-and-prison-reform, Dix report was a major success. Today, there are lots of hospitals for the mentally ill.

Prison Reform - Matt

One day a woman named Dorothea Dix went to a prison to teach a Sunday school class. She couldn’t believe what she saw that day it even changed her life. She was horrified by how in the jails kids were in cells with adults and the mentally ill were treated terrible as if they were insane. Most Americans were jailed because they couldn’t pay off their debts and you think how are they going to pay it off if their in prison?
After a while Dorothea got enough information to write a letter to the Massachusetts State Legislature. She was amazed when the lawmakers voted to create public asylums for the mentally ill. They even created special mental hospitals.

The prison reform was a big success. According to Spartacus Educational, (http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USACWdixD.htm) “By 1854 Dix had helped to establish mental hospitals in eleven states. She had also founded hospitals in Russia, Turkey, France and Scotland.”

She was inspired then and campaigned for reform for the rest of her life. State governments no longer put debtors in prison and special justice system made for children in trouble. Also there was no more cruel punishment in prisons.

Equal treatment of women - Holly

In 1840 two very different women, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Stanton met at an anti-slavery convention. The two women bonded over the fact that they were not allowed to speak out about slavery and were forced to sit in a balcony behind a curtain. When the two got to talking they both agreed that it was ridiculous that they weren’t allowed to do the same things as men and they both decided things had to change. Those men who forced them to sit behind a curtain had another thing coming.

Women in the United States weren’t allowed the same rights as men and they were tired of it. They didn’t want to wait on men hand and foot. They wanted to be doctors and lawyers and hold office. Eighteen years later Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Stanton met again. All the women who wanted a change and a few men met at Seneca Falls for a convention. Women who agreed such as Lucy Stone decided to make the Declaration of Sentiments. In this declaration women listed cruel things men did such as abusing their wives and taking control over their income. One of the biggest reasons for making this reform was the fact that women weren’t allowed to vote. Slowly but surely women gained these rights but only one women , Charlotte Blackwell was alive to actually be involved in this sacred right of passage.

I personally believe that this reform was very successful because women can work as much as men and are able to vote. Women can also hold office and own land. According to http://www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/articles/030224/24women.htm the amount women who make up the work force has increased from 30% in the 1950s to about half of the work force now. I believe that women’s rights have come a long way and we have women like Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott to thank for that.

Prison Reform - Alex E

One day in 1841 a woman named Dorothea Dix agreed to teach Sunday school at a local prison. What she saw that day changed her life forever.

Dix saw that the prisoners were treated horribly. They were bound in chains and locked in cages. Children that committed only minor thefts were locked up with adults! She was outraged when she saw this and wondered if prisoners everywhere were treated like this. She also visited many debtors and they most were locked up for less than twenty dollars!
What shocked Dorothea most was the way that they treated the mentally ill. They were locked up in dirty over crowded prisons and were whipped if they misbehaved.
All of this lead to Dix wanting change. She gathered information for years and prepared a report for the Massachusetts state Legislature. They were shocked by Dix’s report and decided to make public asylums for the mentally ill. Inspired by her success she decided to go to other states and help the mentally ill there too.

Equal Rights for Women - Taylor

The problem with women’s rights was that many women were treated horribly in the mid 19th century. Men thought women only cleaned house and cooked for their families but women wanted to do the same things as men. Women couldn’t speak in a meeting or vote and many young girls could not attend school only boys were allowed to attend.
People that changed women rights are Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. They both meet at an anti-slavery conference in 1840. They both were outraged to see how women were treated so badly. Mott and Stanton decided to hold a women’s convention in Seneca Falls. Both men and women attended the event even African Americans came to the convention.
The Seneca Falls convention helped create an organized campaign for women’s rights. Women finally got to be treated equal and many women from all States got to control payments and even a woman got to start her own hospital. According to www.legacy98.org women and men are finally equal because of hard work and strength of many women who were treated poorly.

Prisons - TJ

Many people were in these prisons because they were in debt. Other people were in the prisons because they were mentally ill. Some were in cages, cellars, stalls. Most were beaten, some were naked.

Dorothea Dix was a woman that went to these prisons to look how these people were treated. After she saw the conditions, she wanted to change the prison system.

By the time she died the states no longer put debtors in prisons. And good mental hospitals were built for the mentally insane.


I think this movement was very successful. According to The National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems (http://www.naphs.org/) there are “more than 600 specialty psychiatric hospitals, general hospital psychiatric and addiction treatment units and behavioral healthcare divisions, residential treatment facilities, youth services organizations, and extensive outpatient networks.”