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- Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
5: ...rn in [[Adams, Massachusetts]], the daughter of [[Quaker]]s. Soon after her birth, the Anthony family move...
7: ...r father ran for his and neighbors' children, and from the age of 17 to 32 she herself taught in vario...
9: ...he two sexes, and as a public speaker and writer. From [[1868]] to [[1870]] she was the proprietor of ...
15: ... [[National Woman's Suffrage Association]] (NWSA) from the date of its organization in [[1869]] until ...
19: ...te of women's rights and of [[alcohol]] abolition from [[Arizona]]. She died at Rochester, New York, ... - Lucretia Mott (3249 bytes)
3: ...ncher of women's political advocacy. She was a [[Quaker]], a [[women's rights]] proponent, and an [[aboli...
5: ...y early 1800s. Lucretia Mott was one of the first Quaker women to do advocacy work for [[abolition]].
7: ...ng. They had a rich history and singular respect from the majority of American people of those times,...
19: ....edu/slavery_mott1.html Lucretia Mott's biography from the Smithsonian] - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
2: ...orothy Dix]]) was a tireless social activist who, from the early [[1840s]] to well after the [[America...
4: ...er as a reformer before the first woman graduated from a U.S. [[medical school]].
10: ...g on the estate of the Rathbone family, eminent [[Quaker]] reformers, where she recovered.
12: ...the healing power of a family-like asylum removed from the pressures of daily life. When she returned ...
16: ..., following this presentation, the representative from Little Compton announced that Simmons had died.... - Harriet Tubman (5215 bytes)
2: ...aiser, all as part of the struggle for liberation from [[slavery]] and [[racism]].
5: ...ree man. She endured years of inhumane treatment from her various owners, including an incident where...
9: ...d hundreds of people trapped in slavery up to the free states, during the Civil War.
17: ...route would be shot dead to prevent the dissenter from betraying the group.
21: Harriet Tubman continued as an activist for [[African-American]] and women's rights. With [[Sarah B... - Pennsylvania (32594 bytes)
38: ...tch]] were the first [[Europe]]an settlers, the [[Quaker]] [[William Penn]] named Pennsylvania for the Lat...
42: ...ges, while others are virtually indistinguishable from non-Amish or Mennonites.
55: ...olony there as a place of religious freedom for [[Quaker]]s, and named it for the [[Latin]] phrase meaning...
57: ...laware Counties, was settled by [[Wales|Welsh]] [[Quaker]]s and called the "[[Welsh Tract]]". Even today m...
59: ...rench]] during the [[French and Indian War]]. The French established numerous fortifications in the ar... - New Jersey (35646 bytes)
41: ...]] (the land that would become New Jersey) to two friends who had been loyal through the [[English Civ...
43: ...lish Crown and gave sanctuary to the King. It was from the Royal Square in St. Helier that [[Charles I...
45: ...time) who settled the Delaware Valley region as a Quaker colony. New Jersey was governed as two distinct p...
63: ... However, by the close of the Civil War, several African-Americans in New Jersey were still in bondage...
70: ... two [[United States Senate|U.S. Senators]] are [[Frank R. Lautenberg]] (Democrat) and [[Jon Corzine]]... - Vietnam War (102682 bytes)
15: ... Vietnam]]<br><br>[[Viet Cong|National Liberation Front<br>(Viet Cong)]]<br><br />[[Image:Viet cong fl...
33: The '''Vietnam War''' was fought from [[1957]] to [[1975]] between Vietnamese nationa...
37: ...y experts consider the Vietnam War to just be one frontline in the larger [[Cold War]].
41: ...for the Liberation of Vietnam|National Liberation Front]], a South Vietnamese opposition movement with...
43: ...ort to maintain control of her former colony of [[French Indochina]]. - Benjamin Banneker (3034 bytes)
1: ...1731]] – [[October 9]], [[1806]]) was an [[African-American]] [[astronomer]], [[clock|clockmaker...
3: ...of a farm and married one of her slaves, whom she freed.
5: ...mple [[arithmetic]] by his grandmother and by a [[Quaker]] schoolmaster, who changed his name to Banneker....
11: ...Benjamin Banneker's Almanac'', which he published from [[1792]] through [[1797]]. He became known as t...
13: ... Andrew and Joseph Ellicott to work with [[France|French]] architect [[Pierre Charles L'Enfant|Pierre ... - Richard Nixon (32863 bytes)
19: .... President to have ever [[resignation|resigned]] from office. His resignation came after a loss of p...
22: ...tive evangelical Quaker observances as refraining from drinking, dancing and swearing.
24: ...s of two of his brothers, one from cancer and one from a childhood accident.
28: ...er College's first school dance, forbidden by the Quakers. In [[1934]] he graduated second in his class, a...
30: ... been exempt from military service because of his Quaker religion, but volunteered anyway. He later said h... - Herbert Hoover (27123 bytes)
8: | succeeded=[[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]
21: Hoover was born into a [[Quaker]] family in [[West Branch, Iowa|West Branch]], [[...
23: ...led as "a severe man on the surface, but like all Quakers kindly at the bottom." The future president liv...
24: ...e John Minthorn in this [[Newberg, Oregon]] house from [[1885]]-[[1891|91]].]]
32: ... what you feel inside yourself," she told college friends. - History of Christianity (35391 bytes)
8: ...in the [[first century]] AD. Christianity brought from Judaism its [[scriptures]] (the [[Old Testament...
10: ... on different interpretations of various passages from the Old Testament (or [[Tanakh]]).
26: ...hurch]] is said to extend in an unbroken timeline from this period. This section will examine those f...
45: *[[Justin Martyr]], convert from Greek philosophy
67: ...hurch and Roman Emperor Constantine, we can infer from [[Athanasius]]' arguments against Arius some id... - Theodore Roosevelt (35706 bytes)
22: ...evelt was a fifth cousin of the later President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]. They are the only cousins t...
27: ...ved he attended [[Friends Seminary]], a private [[Quaker]] school on [[16th Street, New York City|16th Str...
30: *From 1869 to 1870 his family toured [[Europe]] and s...
31: *From 1872 to 1873 the Roosevelt family traveled in [...
34: ... [[German language|German]] and [[French language|French]] while the family was in Dresden, remarked; ... - United States Declaration of Independence (23184 bytes)
8: ...ee and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that a...
10: ...n. Jefferson did most of the writing, with input from the committee. His original draft included a d...
13: [[image:Draftcrop.jpg|thumb|300px|Fragment of an early draft of the Declaration]]
24: ...feguard these rights, and derive their just power from the consent of the governed
36: ..., [[1776]], in geographic order of their colonies from north to south, though some delegates were not ... - Dolley Madison (2896 bytes)
1: [[Image:Dmadison.jpeg|right|frame|Madison in 1848]]
2: ...America|President]] [[James Madison]], who served from 1809 until 1817. She also occasionally acted as...
3: [[Image:First_lady_dolly_madison.jpg|right|frame|]]
5: ...n in New Garden, a [[Religious Society of Friends|Quaker]] community in what is today [[Guilford County, N...
7: ... Madisons had no children but raised Dolley's son from her first marriage, John Payne Todd, whom they ... - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (32608 bytes)
5: ... political and social importance, with [[Benjamin Franklin]] playing an extraordinary role in Philadel...
34: ... of this philosophy. During early immigration by Quakers and others, when immigrants purchased land in th...
41: ...nited States|United States Government]] was moved from [[Federal Hall]] in [[New York, New York|New Yo...
47: ...sition]]. Memorial Hall and the expansive mall in front of it are remnants of this fair.
51: ...|800px|<center>Center City Philadelphia panorama, from [[1913]].</center>]]
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