Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The following is a list of women in war and their exploits from about 1800 up to about 1899. For women in warfare in the United States at this time, please see Timeline of women in war in the United States, pre-1945. Only women active in direct warfare, such as warriors, spies, and women who actively led armies are included in this list.
Women during the Reconstruction era following the US Civil War, from 1863 to 1877, acted as the heads of their households due to the involvement of men in the war, and presided over their farm and family members throughout the country. Following the war, there was a great surge for education among women and to coincide with this, a great need ...
Anna Benjamin (1874–1902) was the first female photojournalist to report on a war. [64] Though technically, women were banned from the war zone, she reported on the Spanish-American War for Leslie's Weekly. [65] Harriet Chalmers Adams (1875–1937) was an explorer whose expedition photographs were published in National Geographic.
U.S. territorial extent in 1860. April 3, 1860 – Pony Express begins. November 6 – 1860 United States presidential election: Abraham Lincoln elected president and Hannibal Hamlin vice president with only 39% of the vote in a four-man race. December 18 – Crittenden Compromise fails. December 20 – President Buchanan fires his cabinet.
1860 1860 Paiute War United States: Paiute tribes 1860 1861 First Taranaki War Second Māori War Part of New Zealand Wars: Māori iwi (tribes) Māori King Movement. Government of New Zealand. British Settlers 1860 1862 Colombian Civil War (1860–62) Granadine Confederation: Federal State of Cauca: 1860 1890 Barasa–Ubaidat War: Ubaidat Tribe ...
The U.S. Navy included women nurses at its hospitals for the first time in its history. [18] 1812. During the War of 1812 Mary Marshall and Mary Allen worked as nurses for U.S. Commodore Stephen Decatur on the United States. [19] 1819
1870 Louisa Swain was the first woman in the United States to vote in a general election, after the women of New Jersey lost the right to vote in 1807; she cast her ballot on September 6, 1870, in Laramie, Wyoming. [32] [33] 1870 Esther Hobart Morris was the first woman in America to serve as Justice of the peace. [34] 1870
Even so, many women's anti-slavery societies were active before the Civil War, the first one having been created in 1832 by free black women from Salem, Massachusetts [88] Fiery abolitionist Abby Kelley Foster was an ultra-abolitionist, who also led Lucy Stone, and Susan B. Anthony into the anti-slavery movement.