Famous Women In Early America Students.pptx

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Anne Hutchison

Year Born: 1591 Year Died: 1643

Childhood:

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Lincolnshire, England (moved to MA)

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Daughter of a minister

Education:

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Educated by her father

Role/Accomplishments:

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Religious leader

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Convicted of heresy for claiming to be

able to read and understand the

Bible, kicked out of Massachusetts

Quotes/Other:

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Abigail Adams

Childhood:

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Often ill as a child

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Born in Weymouth Massachusetts Bay Colony

Education:

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Adams did not receive a formal education because at

the time, only boys went to school, so she was

homeschooled by her mother.

Role/Accomplishments:

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Second First Lady of the United States (wife of John

Adams) and the mother of the sixth president John

Quincy Adams.

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Argued for women’s rights and against slavery

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Was so influential over her husband, she was

nicknamed, “Mrs. President,” by critics

Quotes/Other:

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Angelina Grimke

Childhood:

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Raised on a wealthy plantation in the South

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Moved to the North to get away from her slave holding

family and become an

anti-slavery advocate

Education:

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Home-schooled because she was a girl

Role/Accomplishments:

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Anti- slavery activist who wrote and lectured about the

evils of slavery from her own experience growing up as a

white girl on a plantation

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Argued for women’s equality

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Published a book called

An Appeal to Christian Women of

the South

calling on females to convince the fathers,

husbands, and sons that slavery was evil and must be

stopped

Quotes/Other:

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Became famous after writing a letter to the abolitionist

William Lloyd Garrison, which he published in his

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Lucretia Mott

Year Born:

1793

Year Died:

1880

Childhood:

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The second out of eight kids born to a wealthy family

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Went to a boarding school at age 13

Education:

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Attended the private Nine Quakers Boarding School

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Became a teacher after graduation from Nine Quakers

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She

became and advocate for women’s rights and

equality

when she discovered male staff members got

paid three times as much as female staff.

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Organized the Seneca Falls Convention, the first

women’s rights convention, with Elizabeth Cady

Stanton and Lucy Stone

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Sojourner Truth

Childhood:

• _{Rifton, New York}

• Born into slavery and sold at age eleven

Education:

• No formal education because slaves were banned from learning to read and write

• _{Successfully ran away from slavery}

• After becoming a free woman she won a court case to free her enslaved son

• In 1850 she dictated and published her autobiography

• Toured the North and delivered lectures about the evils of slavery from her own personal experience

• Rallied countless people to join the abolitionist (anti-slavery) cause which helped provoke the Civil War which ultimately ended slavery in the United States

Quotes/Other:

• Was inspired by religion to change her name from Isabella Baumfree to Sojourner Truth

• 1,000 people attended her funeral

• Died at the age of 86 from natural causes

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Emma Willard

Year Born:

1787

Year Died:

1870

Childhood:

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Born in Berlin, Connecticut, USA

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16

th

Child out of 17

Education:

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Attended local schools that allowed her in

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Her father believed in strong education for her

daughters

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She advocated equal education for young

woman through the academy level

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Then in 1821 she opened the first school for girls

in Waterford, New York

Quotes/Other:

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“In inquiring concerning the benefits of the plan

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Year Born: 1815

Year Died: 1902

Childhood:

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Johnstown, New York

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The eighth of 11 children

Education:

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Attended Johnstown Academy (HS) and studied

Latin, Greek, French, Mathematics, Religion and

Science. Went on to Troy Female Academy

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Her father was a court judge which led him to

teaching her about law

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Organized the Seneca Falls Convention, the first

women’s rights convention, with Lucretia Mott and

Lucy Stone

Quotes/Other:

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When she asked her father if she could go to college,

he replied “Oh, my daughter, I wish you were a boy”

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Elizabeth Blackwell

Year Born:

1821

Year Died:

1910

Childhood:

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Born in Bristol, England

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6 younger siblings and 2 older siblings

Education

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Hobart and Smith Colleges, Bedford

College, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital,

Geneva Medical School

Role/Accomplishments

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First women to earn a medical degree

in the United States

Quotes/Other

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Lucy Stone

Year Born:

1818

Year Died:

1893

Childhood:

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Parents were abolitionists (against slavery)

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Born and died in Massachusetts

Education:

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Attended to Oberlin and Mount Holyoke colleges,

earned a bachelor’s degree

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Helped lead the first national women’s rights

convention at Seneca Falls with Elizabeth Cady

Stanton and Lucretia Mott

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Anti-slavery advocate

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Wrote a book entitled “Loving Warriors”

Quotes/Other:

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Married Henry Blackwell (brother of Elizabeth

Blackwell)

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Sacagawea

Year Born: 1788 (?) Year Died: 1812 (?)

Childhood:

• _{Born a member of the Shoshone tribe (Idaho today)}

• Kidnapped and enslaved by the Hidatsa at age 12

• The Hidatsa sold her to a French fur trader named Toussaint Charbonneau at age 13 (along with another Shoshone girl) to become one of his

wives/slaves

Education:

• Learned the languages, lands, and customs of the Shoshone, the Hidatsa, and other neighboring communities through personal experience

• At 15 and pregnant, her husband/owner Charbonneau was hired to guide a group of American explorers to the Pacific Ocean and back.

Charbonneau brought her and the baby on the trip.

• She proved to be the better guide, helping to lead the famous “Lewis & Clark Expedition” by:

– Showing them the way forward

– Translating for them in Native American languages

– Saving them from losing their stuff when the boat overturned

– Getting them much needed resources and supplies

– Teaching them which plants could be eaten

– …all while caring for a newborn baby!

Quotes/Other:

• _{Had two children}