Famous American Women

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Famous American Women

• Bella Abzug said, "From kitchen tables to the
  peace tables, women propose to turn the tables on
  the status quo.
• Sandra F. McLendon
• November 2001

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Famous American Women Reformers

• Jane Addams
• Susan B. Anthony
• Bertha Palmer
• Elizabeth Stanton
• Harriet Tubman

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To learn about these reformers we will read their
biographies and visit the Library of Congress
website and other Internet sites.
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Biographies

• We will learn about these women by studying
  biographies of their lives
• True story
• Account of a persons life
• Story written by another person
• Story about a real individual
• Real facts, events, and information

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Word MapReformer
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Jane AddamsSocial Reformer

• Jane Addams was a social reformer. She
  started Hull House to help people who lived in
  slum conditions.

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Susan Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton

• Susan Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton were
  friends and worked together to promote womens
  rights as suffragists.

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Concept Map--Suffragist
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Bertha Honore Palmer

• Bertha Honore Palmer was a very rich leader
  in Chicago society. She worked with her husband
  to influence womens rights.

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Harriet TubmanAbolitionist

• Harriet Tubman, known as Moses, was a
  runaway slave who was an abolitionist. She
  conducted slaves to freedom on the underground
  railroad.

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Word Map--Abolitionist
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Famous American Reformers
Many women worked to change and to promote change
in US history during this time period. We will
only study a few.
Gilded Age Time Line
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Credits Bertha Honore Palmer. c. 1890s.
Chicago History. http//www. chicagohs.org/AOTM/M
ar98/mar98artifact.html. (November 15,
2001) Gilded Age Picture. http//www.americaslib
rary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/1878-1889 (November
15, 2001). "Portrait of Harriet Tubman."
Courtesy of the Moorland-Spingarn Research
Center, Howard University. http//www.americaslib
rary.gov/ cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/tubman (November
15, 2001). Reddy, Helen. I am woman. Capitol
Labels, 1972. http//www.geocities. com/
angelwolfheart5/ AngelsPlaceClassicRock.html
(November 15, 2001).
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"Susan Anthony Elizabeth Cady Stanton." 1870s.
American Treasures of the Library of Congress
REASON. http//www.americaslibrary.gov/ pages/
aa_stanton_ friends_1.html (November 15,
2001). Water, Ed. D., "Jane Addams,
head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left." 1907.
http//www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/a
a/addams (November 15, 2001).