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Mid-Terms figures
Important women
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History
Undergraduate 2
04/07/2012

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Mary Wollstonecraft
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Wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792
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Frances (Fanny) Wright
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"The Red Harlot of Infidelity" 1829. She devoted part of her inheritance to the establishment of an interracial community in Bashoba, Tennessee.
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Abigail Adams
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Managed the family farm while her husband was away, she kept close tabs on political events in Mass., provided her husband with important insights about how the Revolution was proceeding. She sparred with her husband in the spring of 1776 as he debated with delegates of the Second Continental Congress.
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Nancy Ward
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Powerful Cherokee War Woman, traveled with men from her village to meet with officials of the United States in 1781 to negotiate a peace treaty. She was origionally born Nan-ye-hi.
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Frances Willard
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Leader of the WCTU. In 1873, she was the first dean of women and professor at Northwestern University.
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