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1.) 1621 - Women Help Found the English Colonies
Women pioneers in the English Colonies of Jamestown and Plymouth Plantation, made the colonies successful, and began creating an American woman persona, especially among the Puritan women.
2.) 1650 - Anne Hutchinson and Anne Bradstreet Use New Found American Independence to Express Themselves
Anne Hutchinson and Anne Bradstreet were women leaders in the Massachusetts Bay Colony; Bradstreet the first of America's many women writers, and Hutchinson who was responsible for the Rhode Island founding, while later, women were found killed in Salem for practicing witchcraft.
3.) 1773 - Phillis Wheatley Becomes America's First Black Woman Poet
Phillis Wheatley, America's first Black Poet, wrote "On Being Brought From Africa to America," which established as a great colonial poet.
4.) 1776 - Abigail Adams and the Female Patriots
Abigail Adams and the female Patriots Deborah Samson and Mary Ludwig Hays, also known as Molly Pitcher, as well as the Daughters of Liberty, took part in the American Revolution, led by Abigail's husband, John Adams.
5.) 1805 - Sacagawea, Interpreter and Guide, Aids Lewis and Clark
Sacagawea helped Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery Expedition, especially when they met her Shoshone relatives.