John Fitch and his Steamboat. John Fitch: Granted a U.S. Patent for the Steamboat in 1791. History & Culture. The era of the steamboat began in America in 1787 when John Fitch (1743-1798) made the first successful trial of a steamboat on the Delaware River, in the presence of members of the Constitutional Convention. Background. Fitch was born in 1743 in Connecticut. His mother died when he was four; his father was harsh and rigid.
A brief history of the women's movement. Purple is to lavender as woman is to feminist - Alice Walker. Organised feminism did not really kick off until the first Women's Conference hed in Seneca Falls, America, in 1848.
The woman suffrage movement actually began in 1848, when the first womenâs rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York.For the next 50 years, woman suffrage supporters worked to educate the public about the validity of woman suffrage.t was the single largest extension of democratic voting rights in our nationâs history, and it was achieved peacefully, through democratic processes. For a detailed history of the Woman Suffrage Movement, visit the NWHM's Online Exhibit Rights for Women: The Suffrage Movement and its Leaders.