The efforts of dorothea dix
to gain voting rights for women
changed the living conditions of the mentally ill from prisons to hospitals
fugitive slaves reach canada
lowered working hours for factory workers

The efforts of Dorothea Dix changed the living conditions of the mentally ill from prisons to hospitals. She was an American activist on behalf of the poor people suffering from insanity whom she ended up creating asylums for. She did this through several strong programs of lobbying state legislatures and doing this through the United States Congress.