The CCC was said to PROVIDE JOBS FOR YOUNG MEN.
It gave the unemployed young men an opportunity to work.
<span>Elizabeth Blackwell
</span><span>First American woman awarded a medical degree by a college. Attended Geneva College in New York after she was rejected by all the major medical schools in the nation because of her sex. Elizabeth Blackwell later founded a women’s medical college to train other women physicians.
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<span>Clara Barton
</span>Clara Barton got involved with tending the needy when she treated injured Union soldiers on the battlefield during the Civil War. She later was the founder and first president of the American Red Cross.
<span>Susan B. Anthony
</span><span>The 19th century women’s movement’s most powerful organizer.
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<span>Louisa May Alcott
</span><span>Author who produced the first literature for the mass market of juvenile girls in the 19th century.
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Pearl S. Buck
<span>With her novels about American and Asian culture, she became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. </span>
Hammurabi keenly understood that, to achieve this goal, he needed one universal set of laws for the diverse peoples he conquered.
Trial by cold water was when the accused was thrown into a pool of water bound. If he/she sank and drowned he/she was innocent (and conveniently dead). If he/she floated and did not sink, he was taken to have been "rejected" by the water and must necessarily be guilty.
