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Counseled John Adams and encouraged US founding fathers to not leave women out of the freedoms and privileges of the new republic

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Taught mathematics and astronomy at the university level in the 1910s

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First American woman to be killed in action during WWII

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President of Wellesley College in the late 19th c. and ardent supporter of women's education

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Suffragist who started the National Woman's Party and was willing to lose her freedom for the cause

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Michigan labor activist who rallied workers and fought against capitalists so that laborers could sit at the bargaining table

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First midwife in Frankenmuth, Michigan

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Michigan attorney who worked for labor and women's rights

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In colonial US, she dared to believe that women could take an active role in religion

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Annie Smith Peck was an adventurer, teacher, author, and mountain climber who achieved new heights for women, not just by scaling summits but through her travel writing, work in the Classics, and exploration.
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