Why is Mary Eliza Mahoney important?
She is noted for becoming the first African American licensed nurse. Mary Eliza Mahoney was born in the spring of 1845 in Boston, Massachusetts. The exact date of her birth is unknown. Born to freed slaves who had moved to Boston from North Carolina, Mahoney learned from an early age the importance of racial equality.
C. ethnic and religious diversity distinguished the Middle Colonies from New England and the Southern Colonies.
Is number 1. Quakers and Jews
Those of Japanese heritage living on Bainbridge Island (in Seattle area) were given six days to pack their belongings and prepare to leave. They would only be able to take with them what they could carry. They also all had to register with the Justice Department, photos and fingerprints taken. That part had been ordered already by President Roosevelt in January, 1942. In February, 1942, FDR signed an executive order that allowed the Secretary of War to designate certain areas as military zones. FDR's executive order set the stage for the relocation of Japanese-ancestry persons to internment camps. Altogether about 13,000 persons from the state of Washington were sent to such internment camps.
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