She came over on the Mayflower and was a member of the Plymouth Pilgrim Colony and wife of John Alden. Their love story parallels the perils of the Colony’s 1st winter. Despite the difficulties, forging a life in this new wilderness was utmost in their minds.
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Lewis and Clark were commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson to explore the northern section of the newly acquired LA Purchase. They took a French-Canadian trapper and his young Shoshone wife as interpreters. Because she carried her baby, tribes they encountered knew it was a mission of peace.
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She was an American social reformer who played a pivotal role in the women’s suffrage movement, as well as an advocate for the abolishment of slavery while only 17 years old.
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