Title: Curators Office
1 Revolutionary Heroines Room
Westward Women Room
Curators Office
Civil War Room
2Shae 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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4Westward Women
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6Civil 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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7A 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.
http//americancivilwar.com/women/women.html
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8Pioneer 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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9Revolutionary War Woman
- Many women worked as nurses, spies, messengers,
and participated in actual combat during the
Revolutionary War.
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10Sybil 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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11Phillis 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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12Abigail 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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13Molly 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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14Elinore 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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http//www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WWpruitt.jpg
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15Elizabeth 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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16Sacajawea
- 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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17The Grimke Sisters
- The Grimke sisters were two early female
abolitionists and womens rights activists.
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18Harriet 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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19Elizabeth 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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20Clara 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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21Dorothea 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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http//www.cwrl.utexas.edu/ulrich/femhist/dix.jpg
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