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  2. List of women printers and publishers before 1800 - Wikipedia

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    Benjamin Franklin also played a role in women running printing and publishing businesses. Franklin had used his own money to set up printing operations in the colonies for six years for each business. In the meantime, if the husband, like Lewis Timothy died, Franklin negotiated the arrangements for wives to take over the contract. [65]

  3. Women of Colonial Virginia - Wikipedia

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    In the early Virginia colonies, Native American women were responsible for household tasks and hard labor in the fields. It was normal for Native American women to have more responsibilities than men, as they were viewed as superior to men in certain ways. Powhatan women ( of Pochohontas' tribe) did not eat with the men, and the men had many wives.

  4. Margaret Brent - Wikipedia

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    Margaret Brent (c. 1601 – c. 1671), was an English immigrant to the Colony of Maryland, settled in its new capitol, St. Mary's City, Maryland.She was the first woman in the English North American colonies to appear before a court of the common law.

  5. Women in 17th-century New England - Wikipedia

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    The experience of women in early New England differed greatly and depended on one's social group acquired at birth. Puritans , Native Americans , and people coming from the Caribbean and across the Atlantic were the three largest groups in the region, the latter of these being smaller in proportion to the first two.

  6. Timeline of women's legal rights in the United States (other ...

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    On January 1, the Massachusetts government enforces a law that allowed women to work a maximum of 54 hours instead of 56. Ten days later, affected workers discover that pay had been reduced along with the cut in hours. [64] 1915. The Supreme Court first considers the Expatriation Act of 1907 in the 1915 case MacKenzie v. Hare.

  7. Anne Hutchinson - Wikipedia

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    Anne was the third of 15 children born to this marriage, 12 of whom survived early childhood. [11] The Marburys lived in Alford for the first 15 years of Anne's life, and she received a better education than most girls of her time, with her father's strong commitment to learning, and she also became intimately familiar with scripture and ...

  8. History of women in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The 1920s saw the emergence of the co-ed, as women began attending large state colleges and universities. Women entered into the mainstream middle-class experience, but took on a gendered role within society. Women typically took classes such as home economics, "Husband and Wife", "Motherhood" and "The Family as an Economic Unit".

  9. Colonial government in the Thirteen Colonies - Wikipedia

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    The thirteen colonies (shown in red) in 1775. The governments of the Thirteen Colonies of British America developed in the 17th and 18th centuries under the influence of the British constitution. The British monarch issued colonial charters that established either royal colonies, proprietary colonies, or corporate colonies.