________ was an American activist on behalf of the mentally ill whose advocacy helped create the first state-supported American mental asylums.
A. Dorothea Dix
B. Susan B. Anthony
C. Elizabeth Stanton
D. Lucretia Mott
Answer: A
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a. the southern California counties. b. California abolitionists. c. proslaveryites in the state d. the northern California counties.
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