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Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams (1744-1818) was an American first lady (1797-1801), the wife of John Adams, and the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president. A strong advocate of women’s rights, Abigail Adams encouraged her husband and other members of the Continental Congress to “…remember the ladies…” as they began the work of crafting a new American government. -
Paul Revere
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George Washington
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The Women's Rights Movement
Seneca Falls Convention. In 1848, a group of abolitionist activists—mostly women, but some men—gathered in Seneca Falls, New York to discuss the problem of women's rights. They were invited there by the reformers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. -
Sojourner Truth "A'int I a Woman?"
"Ain't I a Woman?" is the name given to a speech, delivered extemporaneously, by Sojourner Truth, (1797–1883), born into slavery in New York State. ... Her speech was delivered at the Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio, on May 29, 1851, and did not originally have a title. -
Abraham Lincoln- Delivered the Emancipation Proclamation
Became the 16th U.S. President from 1861- 1865.
the Emancipation Proclamation, reshapED the cause of the Civil War from saving the Union to abolishing slavery. The Union Army's first year and a half of battlefield defeats made it difficult to keep up morale and support strong for a reunification of the nation. And the Union victory at Antietam on September 22, 1862, while by no means conclusive, was hopeful, giving Lincoln confidence to officially change the goals of the war. -
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Jim Crow Law
Jim Crow law, in U.S. history, any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s. -
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World War I
World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918 -
19th Amendment- Women can vote
Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. -
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She received the United States Distinguished Flying Cross for this accomplishment -
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World War II
World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. -
Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
The name code talkers is strongly associated with bilingual Navajo speakers specially recruited during World War II by the Marines to serve in their standard communications units in the Pacific Theater. Code talking, however, was pioneered by the Cherokee and Choctaw peoples during World War I. -
WASPs (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
They were the pioneering organizations of civilian women pilots, who were attached to the United States Army Air Forces to fly military aircraft during World War II. On August 5, 1943, the WFTD and WAFS merged to create the WASP organization. -
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Civil Rights Movement
The civil rights movement was a decades long movement with the goal of securing legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already held. -
MLK's "I have a Dream Speech"
"I Have a Dream" is a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963 -
Ralph Nader
Nader’s college article on auto safety and design caught the attention of Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel P. Moynihan, who had long been interested in automobile safety design and had written an article of his own in 1959 titled “Epidemic on the Highways.” -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 blasted off on July 16, 1969. Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins were the astronauts on Apollo 11. Four days later, Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the moon. They landed on the moon in the Lunar Module -
Sonia Sotomayor
Became the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice
