a.Dorothea Lynde Dix 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.
b.Education reform is the name given to the goal of changing public education. Historically, reforms have taken different forms because the motivations of reformers have differed.
c. Dix was worried of the conditions in other jails and so she traveled around the state and recorded the conditions of many jails.