<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>
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Freedom of worship and the right to believe in any religion was important in the colonies of the 18th century. Let´s remember that many Englishmen who had emigrated to the New World faced religious persecution at home, or they had decided to emigrate because they wanted to live in communities according to their own principles, something that was not possible then in England for political and religious reasons.
Besides, the separation of church and state was an important idea of Enlightenment, an idea dear to the Founding Fathers. Freedom of worship seemed to them as another human freedom to be protected and cared about. And this is as important today as it was 250 years ago; there are large Muslim communitities in the USA today. Isn´t it relevant that they enjoy the right to practice their religion? Of course it is.
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