The Boston schoolteacher most responsible for the establishment of mental hospitals in the 19th century United States is ______.
A) Mary Dexter
B) Dorothea Dix
C) Laura Constance Wilson
D) Martha Custis

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Dorothea 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. Her petitioning resulted in Massachusetts' establishing the Worcester State Asylum in 1833, the first such institution erected in America.

The Boston Schoolteacher Most Responsible for the Establishment of Mental