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| Pocahontas | (1595-1617) Native American, ultimately saved the Virginia Company by saving peace |
| Anne Hutchinson | (1591-1643) one of the earliest feminists, interpreted Puritan clergy's sermons to others, held unorthodox religious discussions |
| Witch Trial of Salem, Massachusetts | (1692) hung mainly women for deviating from Puritan ways |
| Martha Washington | (1732-1802) first First Lady, "Lady Washington" |
| Women in the Military | some women disguised themselves to help win American Revolution |
| Abigail Adams | first First Lady in the White House, strongly tried to persuade women's rights views upon her husband |
| Molly Pitcher | Revolutionary War hero, filled her husbands position when he was wounded in battle |
| Deborah Sampson | only woman to serve formally in Revolutionary War by dressing in reverse drag |
| Mary Lyon | a pioneer in higher education for women, founded Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary, later called Mt. Hollyoke College in Massachusetts |
| Emma Willard | advocated educational equality for women, founded a female seminary called Emma Willard School at Troy, New York. Girls were instructed in philosophy, mathematics, and other then considered difficult subjects for women |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote novel on slave life in the South, Uncle Tom's Cabin, helped raised support for abolitionist movement |
| Dorthea Dix | her effort brought state-supported institutions for the proper treatment and sympathetic care of the mentally ill, exposed conditions of the Nations' prisons, abolished debtor's prison, improved conditions of prisons, efforts to prepare offenders for productive lives after release |
| Lucretia Mott/Elizabeth Cady Stanton | under their leadership a women's rights convention was held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, at convention they adopted a declaration demanding rights to them as U.S. citizen |
| Jane Addams | social worker among poor, founded Hull House in Chicago, influenced legislation to improve city conditions and eliminate slums, won Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 |
| Susan B. Anthony | leader for women’s suffrage, founded National Women's Suffrage Association |
| Clara Barton | founder of American Red Cross during Civil War, organized supply and nursing for wounded and ill soldiers |
| Amelia Jenks Bloomer | social reformer, wrote on education, unjust marriage laws and woman's suffrage |
| Pearl S. Buck | first woman to win Nobel Peace Prize for literature best known for novel, The Good Earth, a story of peasant life in China |
| Mother Fralf Xavier Cabrini | first American citizen to be elevated to sainthood by Catholic church, established orphans, hospitals, schools, preformed social work among Italian immigrants |
| Julia Ward Howe | leader in movements for women's suffrage and international peace, wrote lyrics to the Battle Hymn of the Republic |
| Frances Perkins | Secretary of Labor under FDR |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | wife of FDR, Delegate to United Nations and Chairwoman of Human Rights Commission |
| Anna Howard Shaw | prominent lecturer on political rights for women, served as President of National Woman's Suffrage Association |
| Lillian Wald | social worker in New York, founded Henry street settlement and pioneered public health nursing by organizing a visiting nurse service for the city's needy |
| Babe Didrickson Zaharias | (1912-1956) golf champion. Olympic track star |
| Mary Bethune | (1875-1955) educated black children in her school, President Roosevelt named her his Advisory Council and Director for Negro Youth Administration, during was named commanding officer of Women's Army Corps |
| Sally Ride | first American woman in space |
| Sandra Day O'Conner | 1981 became first woman on Supreme Court |
| Rosa Parks | 1955 refused to move to the back of bus, brought changes to Montgomery's Transportation Laws |
| Betty Friedan | 1963 wrote The Feminine Mystique |
| Margaret Sanger | (1883-1966) introduced birth control with the diaphragms |
| Jane Roe | helped to legalize abortion in 1973 |
| Rachel Carson | wrote Silent Spring ,which expresses the dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides and is credited with having inspired the modern environmental movement |
| Frances Perkins | first woman Cabinet officer and key player in FDR’s New Deal |
