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Revolutionary Heroines Room
Westward Women Room
Curators Office
Civil War Room
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Shae Freitas

• I have been teaching
• elementary school for 19 years. I have taught
  fifth grade for 17 years, fourth grade for 1 year
  and first grade for 1 year. I love teaching
  history throughout the curriculum

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Westward Women

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Civil War Doctor

• Mary Edwards was born into an abolitionist
  family. She graduated from Syracuse Medical
  College. She had to volunteer in the Civil War
  as a surgeon because they would not accept women
  doctors. Later in life she received the
  Congressional Medal of Honor.

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A women Civil War drummer

• Most people accepted that the Civil War was a
  mans fight. Images of women focused on nurses,
  spies, and maintaining the home front in the
  absence of their husband. But, women bore arms
  and charged into battle. They lived in camp,
  suffered in prisons, and died for their cause.

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Pioneer women

• Many women went out west with their families, as
  missionaries, and some women even went out on
  their own to homestead their own claim.

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Revolutionary War Woman

• Many women worked as nurses, spies, messengers,
  and participated in actual combat during the
  Revolutionary War.

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Sybil Ludington

• Sybil Ludington helped stop the advancement of
  the British and gave time for the American
  militia to organize and resist. She was
  recognized for her midnight ride as a messenger.

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Phillis Wheatley

• Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped and sold into
  slavery. As a companion to her masters wife, she
  became educated. After the death of her master,
  she was set free and continued her poetry. Her
  poetry gave her national acclaim in Europe.

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Abigail Adams

• Abigail Adams is known for her extensive letter
  writing to her husband, John Adams. It was her
  insightful and communicative nature that
  described in vivid detail the new nation. She
  was one of our nations first feminists.

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Molly Pitcher

• Molly Pitcher first earned her name by bringing
  pitchers of water to the men on the war front.
  After her husband was killed in combat, she took
  his place at the cannon.

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Elinore Pruitt Stewart

• Elinore Pruitt Stewart came out west as a single
  mother and filed a claim to homestead in Wyoming.
  She began writing of her home-steading
  adventures and they were published in the
  Atlantic Monthly Magazine.

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Elizabeth Blackwell

• Elizabeth Blackwell was the first women to
  receive a medical degree in America. She set-up
  an infirmary in New York for women facing
  problems who were rejected for internships. She
  also provided medical care for the poor.

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Sacajawea

• Sacajawea is a well-known Native American who led
  Lewis and Clark on their famous expedition to the
  Pacific Ocean. She was hired to help-in
  communicating with some of the local Native
  American Tribes.

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http//www.windriverhistory.org/exhibits/sacajawea
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The Grimke Sisters

• The Grimke sisters were two early female
  abolitionists and womens rights activists.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Harriet Beecher Stowe worked as a teacher and
  supported her family financially by writing for
  local religious periodicals. She is best known
  for her novel, Uncle Toms Cabin.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American social
  reformer who led the struggle for woman suffrage,
  as well as, antislavery rallies.

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Clara Barton

• Clara Barton was a Civil War nurse and was the
  founder of the American Red Cross. She was also
  the first women to work at the patent Office in
  Washington in 1854.

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Dorothea Dix

• Dorothea Dix became the Unions Superintendent of
  Female Nurses during the Civil War. She was a
  crusader for the improvement for the treatment of
  metally ill patients and for better prison
  conditions.

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