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Lydia Taft was the first woman known to vote legally in Colonial America after her husband died and son left her; she was granted permission to vote through a Massachusetts town meeting. [8] 1762 Ann Smith Franklin was the first female newspaper editor in America. [9] 1776
1837: The first American convention held to advocate women's rights was the 1837 Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women held in 1837. [4] [5] 1837: Oberlin College becomes the first American college to admit women. 1840: The first petition for a law granting married women the right to own property was established in 1840. [6]
American women achieved several firsts in the professions in the second half of the 1800s. In 1866, Lucy Hobbs Taylor became the first American woman to receive a dentistry degree. [158] In 1878, Mary L. Page became the first woman in America to earn a degree in architecture when she graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ...
She is one of only eleven American women known to have supported themselves as printers before the American Revolution. [71] Elizabeth Timothy (30 June 1702 – April 1757) was a prominent colonial American printer and newspaper publisher in the colony of South Carolina who worked for Benjamin Franklin. She was the first woman in America to ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American colonial people. It includes American colonial people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
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As time passed, African American women were forced to work in the fields, jobs that were known as part of the men's role in American and European society, as well as perform domestic duties. Black women were also seen as a way to produce native-born slaves. [10] There were class, race and gender structures in Colonial America.
Her warning gives the colonists enough time to prepare and win the battle. 1782–1783: Deborah Sampson serves in the American army during the American Revolutionary War while disguised as a man. She is the first known American woman from Massachusetts to join the military, the first to fight in combat, and the first to receive a military pension.