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- John Adam's wife who wrote "remember the ladies"
- Abigail Adams
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helped Elizabeth Cady
Stanton carry out ideas and faught for women's rights; involved in temperance and abolition - Susan B. Anthony
- nurse during civil war (north); began the idea of an "American Red Cross"
- Clara Barton
- first woman to graduate medical school and first doctor
- Elizabeth Blackwell
- first female surgeon
- Emily Blackwell
- first African American to earn a law degree
- Mary Ann Shadd Cary
- wrote about conditions and observations from war
- mary boykin chestnut
- faught for rights for mentally challenged and rights of prisoners; superintendent of nurses during civil war
- Dorthea Lynde Dix
- abolitionist, first female to speak in front of a governmental body
- Angelinia Grimke
- "Molly Pitcher" helped husband on Battle field, brought water to soldiers replaced husband during war
- Molly Hays
- rejected traditional Calvinists beliefs and was ultimately exiled from her colony
- Anne Hutchinson
- Got British soldiers drunk during Revolutionary war, disarmed them and turned them in
- Nancy Hart Morgan
- faught for woman's sufferage; began "Women's party", violent protets, arrested and went on hunger strikes
- Alice Paul
- wealthy land owner, developed indigo dye**, supported the war
- Eliza Lucas Pinckney
- first woman in Congress, pacifist and voted against US involvement in both world wars
- Jeanette Rankin
- organized Seneca Falls Convention, did not agree with divorce?
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- faught for women's suffrage and against slavery; public speaker
- Lucy Stone
- African American preacher, faught for women's and African Ameircan rights, abolitionist
- Sojourner Truth