Transcript Women in American History - Santa Fe Christian Schools

Women in American History
By:
Jennifer Nguyen
POCAHANTAS(1585-1617)
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Many have revered her as
the "mother" of our nation,
the female counterpart to
George Washington.
Pocahontas forever
influenced the history of
the County, the
Commonwealth of
Virginia, and America by
saving peace.
ANNE HUTCHINSON(15911643)
• She believed in a
"covenant of grace," in
which faith alone was
enough to achieve
salvation. Her belief was
known as antinomianism
Hutchinson was banished
and excommunicated.
MARTHA WASHINGTON(17311802)
• Martha was the first of the
First Ladies. She was also
known as “Lady
Washington.”
Abigail Adams (1744-1818)
• Wife of one president and
mother of another, Abigail
Adams was more than a
family helpmate. She shared
and shaped her husband’s
political thought and career.
In her famous "Remember
the Ladies" letter, Abigail
Adams half jestingly
proposed that women should
claim their share of liberty,
but she was ahead of her
time.
Molly Pitcher (1754-1832)
• The famous heroine of the
American Revolution,
born Mary Ludwig near
Trenton, New Jersey. She
married John Hays. She
came to be called Molly
Pitcher after carrying
pitchers of water to her
husband and other thirsty
soldiers during the Battle
of Monmouth(Rev.War)
Deborah Sampson (1760-1827)
• She was accused of "dressing
in men's clothes, and enlisting
in the army," Sampson had
resist-ed the admonitions of
her breth-ern to give
"Christian satisfacti-on” for
her conduct. Nor was this the
end of the tale. Compr-essing
her breasts with cotton cloth
and enlisting again. While
scouting the enemy in wartorn Westchester County, was
wounded
Emma Willard (1787-1870)
• Emma Willard was the
first American woman
publicly to support higher
education for women. Her
efforts advanced that
movement in the United
States. She started the
first women’s boarding
school, Emma Willard
School.
Harriet Beecher Stowe(18111896)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin", an
antislavery novel written
in 1851. This work, which
made Stowe famous
virtually overnight,
intensified North and
South antagonism in the
pre-Civil War era, making
her a hated figure in the
South and the darling of
the English abolitionists.
Dorthea Dix(1802-1887)
• Dorthea Dix was a social
reformer and humanitarian, Dorothea Dix devoted
her life to the welfare of
the mentally ill and the
handicapped. Through her
efforts, special hospitals
for mental patients were
built in more than 15
states, and in Canada,
Europe, and Japan.
Lucretia Mott(1793-1880)
• She started speaking up at
town meetings when
women seldom spoke.
She advocated the radical
idea that slavery was
sinful and must be
abolished. She also
advocated for women’s
rights.
Eliabeth Cady Stanton(18151902
• American social reformer,
who, along with Susan B.
Anthony, led the struggle
for women suffrage.
Jane Addams(1860-1935)
• Jane Addams won a Nobel
Peace Prize in 1931 for
her hard work and effort
helping out the poor and
for her influence on
legislation to improve city
conditions and eliminate
slums.
Susan B. Anthony(1820-1906)
• Susan B. Anthony was
influenced by the first two
women’s suffrage leaders,
Lucretia Mott and
Elizabeth Stanton.
Anthony continued on
with the movement and
became good friends with
Lucretia Mott.
Clara Barton(1821-1912)
• She was the founder of the
American Red Cross. She
left her job to volunteer
for the Civil War treating
the ill. She received a
Congressional appropriation to run what was
known as the Missing
Soldiers Office and
became the first woman to
head a government bureau
Pearl S. Buck(1892-1973)
• She was the first women
to receive a Nobel Peave
Prize for her novel The
Good Earth. Her novels
stem from the belief and
culture of the Chinese,
since it was her home for
many years.
Julia Ward Howe(1819-1910)
• After the war, Howe was active
in the women's rights
movement as a founder of both
the New England Woman's
Club and the Association for the
Advancement of Women. She
also headed the American
branch of the Woman's
International Peace Association.
She was the first woman to be
elected to the American
Academy of Arts and Letters.
She wrote lyrics to Battle Hymn
of the Republic
Frances Perkins(1882-1965)
•
American social reformer, who
became the first female member
of the cabinet when United States
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
named her secretary of labor in
1933. Perkins defended the
interests of working people, and
advocated social security,
unemployment compensation,
minimum wage and maximum
hours, and child welfare
legislation. She was a member of
the New York State Industrial
Board from 1923 to 1926 and its
chairperson from 1926 to 1929
Eleanor Roosevelt(1884-1962)
• She was a social activist,
author, lecturer, and
United States representative to the United Nations.
Mary Bethune(1875-1955)
• In 1904 she founded the Daytona Educational and Industrial
Training School for Negro
Girls. She was appointed
consultant on interracial affairs
and understanding at the charter
conference of the United
Nations. Bethune founded the
National Council of Negro
Women and was a vice president of the National Association
for the Advancement of
Colored People.
Sally Ride(1951- )
• In 1983 became the first
woman in the American
space program to take part
in an orbital mission. Ride
obtained a B.S. in physics
and a B.A. in English
from Stanford University
in 1973 and earned a
Ph.D. in physics there in
1977.
Sandra Day O’Conner(1930- )
• She was the first woman
associate justice of the
United States Supreme
Court. She was nominated
by President Ronald
Reagan to the U.S.
Supreme Court in July
1981 and confirmed by the
U.S. Senate in September
Rosa Parks(1913- )
• In 1955 in Montgomery,
Alabama, Parks refused to
give up her bus seat to a
white man. Her action led
to the Montgomery bus
strike, which was the first
large-scale, organized
protest against segregation
that used nonviolent
tactics.
Betty Friedan(1921- )
•
American feminist leader and
author, born in Peoria, Illinois,
and educated at Smith College.
Her book The Feminine
Mystique (1963) challenged
several long-established
American attitudes, especially
the notion that women could
find fulfillment only as wives
and mothers. Friedan's phrase
"feminine mystique" refers to
the idealization of the
traditional female role
Margaret Sanger(1879-1966)
•
American leader of the
birth-control movement.
She introduced birth
control with the
diaphragms.
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