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Native American Sacagawea begins serving as a guide for Lewis and Clark expedition
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Ellen Craft escapes slavery by posing as a white male
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Harriet Tubman leads black slaves into the North by way of the Underground Railroad
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Harriet Breecher Stowe publishes book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" which helps slave owners realize their crulties.
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Women become allowed to vote in the United States.
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Helen Keller a women who defied all the odds (being born deaf and blind) graduates from college
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Molly Brown survives the sinking of the Titanic, the unsinkable ship