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.
She and Miss Anthony launched their newspaper, Revolution, in New York City in 1868. The following year, she founded the National Wom-an Suffrage Association. Mrs. Stanton proudly helped compose the Womanâs Declaration of Rights, which Susan B. Anthony read at the 1876 Centennial Fair in Philadelphia. With Susan B. Anthony and Matilda J. Gage, she accomplished some of her most important work at her home in Tenafly, including the first volumes of the History of Woman Suffrage.