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    When you think of the Civil War, who do you think of? Old Honest Abe! There are so many other important historical figure who were an important part to the Civil War. One of them is the pioneering nurse, Clara Barton.

Jane Addams life as a child was not easy, she had a congenital spinal defect which led to her never being physically strong and her father who served for sixteen years as a state senator and fought as an officer in the Civil War always showed that his thoughts of women were that they were weak, and especially her with her condition. But besides that she lived a very privileged life since her father had many famous friends like the president Abraham Lincoln.

Anybody can think of an inventor that changed the world. The light bulb is still affecting the world to this day but the light bulb is not the only invention that is still changing the world. A lot of great inventions are only around until the technology around them changes so much that they become obsolete. If those inventions wouldn’t have been invented the world wound not be the same as it is today. There are many different people that change the world daily. In fact, we all affect the world daily, sometimes there is a negative impact and other times there is a positive impact. Only a few people get to change the world after they die. Even fewer get to change the world for hundreds of years after they die. One person that is affecting the world positively many years after his death is John Deere. There is a common name behind today’s mega Agriculture Company John Deere. John Deere may have died over 125 years ago yet he still affects everybody today. Whether people know it or not a piece of john Deere machinery may have touched something that they use a regular basis. John Deere is culturally significant

Throughout the course of human history, nothing we do has ever had as rapid and drastic an effect on history as war. Disasters would be near second place, and coincidentally Clara Barton affected both. Out of a multitude of achievements things, she was a nurse during the Civil War, did many things women of her day could not, and started the American Red Cross. Clara Barton was revolutionary for her influence on society and medicine in American history.

"We stand here today united in a belief in beauty, genius, and courage, and that these can transform the world" Jane Addams was an incredible woman who helped make the changes in child labor laws and the rights of workers that occurred during the Progressive Era. She took action to get corporations to raise wages and improve workplace quality for poor Americans, even though she herself was rich. She fought to make America go through an evolution both mentally and physically by making people aware of the struggles of working immigrants and making sure changes happened to keep workers safe as they provided for their families.

Between the years 1861 to 1865, the United States divided into two nations, the North and the South. The American Civil War was a four years’ war between the North and the South. The two nations fought for what they claimed right. One of the main contributing factors to the Civil War was slavery. During the 1850s, the North and the South argued about slavery and as they kept quarreling, it eventually led up to the secession of the South. The South seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America due to the disagreement between the two. Consequently, historians considered the Civil War was the most deadly war in American history as more than 600,000 soldiers from both Union and Confederate army died fighting for their beliefs.

In conclusion, Alice Augusta Ball has achieved many remarkable accomplishments such as being a significant person in our history for developing the cure for leprosy and making it injectable. In her ongoing research Ball was able to aid thousands in their fight against leprosy. She had also been the first African-American and women to graduate with a master's degree in the sciences from the University of Hawaii and become the first woman to teach chemistry at the university. One can say that after learning about the accomplishments that Alice Augusta Ball made and the obstacles that she overcame, she made her own path to success no matter the fact of her being dead.

Elsie MacGill wasn’t your average girl during the mid-1900’s. She wanted to help for the greater of human kind in all aspects of things. She wanted to be the best and in her case she was. Elsie, along with her mother were set a lot “firsts” and were top to the some of the world’s best. Elsie loved contributed to society and many other things in her lifetime including fighting for women’s rights, designing airplanes for the Second World War

Addams’ is mainly known for her Chicago Hull House (settlement home) which was open to all people. She got the idea to start a settlement house when she went to England with her friend, Ellen Gates Starr, and they saw the Toynbee Hall settlement Home and what they did for people who weren’t as fortunate. The Hull House provided education, shelter, food, fun, clothing, physical aid and more. Along with the Hull House, she was also very well known for her involvement in women’s suffrage. Addams was a very big feminist and wrote many books, said many speeches and led many strikes so women would be equal as men, “‘I do not believe that women are better than men. We have not wrecked, nor corrupted legislature, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance.’- Jane Addams.” (weebly.com). This quote showed how much she believed in equality for all, even for the smallest things. Addams also fought for the improvement of education and so everyone could get free education. She was even on the Chicago Board of Education to help her make this difference for America. Furthermore, Addams was involved in world peace and an anti-war activist group. She thought violence was never the answer since

One can not research social work without coming across the name Jane Addams. Jane’s work within the world of social reform, had a great deal of lasting power. She was at the time of her death, best known for establishing the Hull house and advocating for fair treatment of immigrant communities. Her work may have started in Chicago, but reached worldwide with her reform. Jane Addams influences had a wide reach with lasting results, the greatest being the Hull house. Enjoyably keeping private and detailed notes along the way.

Clara Harris was born on September 9, 1834 in Albany, New York. She was one of the four children of Senator Ira Harris, his first wife was Louisa Tubbs Harris. Clara’s mother died in 1845. At ages 13 and 11, Clara and Henry were raised in the same household. Clara’s father married, widow

The rise of nurses during the progressive era was in response to the overpopulated, and unsanitary conditions of the cities.

“All of the Children of silence must be taught to sing their own song.” This is one of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet’s most famous quotes. Gallaudet lived a very normal childhood, but had a very eventful adult life. Gallaudet was very intelligent child for which led him to go to Yale University at the age of 14. After his college career he met Alice Cogswell, who he did not realise would help him change the lives of all deaf and dumb people for years to come by making the first school especially for them. Most people did not realise that he actually had many health problems during his life. He suffered from nightmares, “nervous attacks”, self inadequacy, and lung problems along his journey for equality for all people. Even with his struggles, Gallaudet was influential all his life from before he met Alice, while he knew her, and even after he died.

Harriett Tubman and Florence Nightingale both brought great change is many people’s lives over the course of their life. Harriett Tubman was a slave on a Maryland plantation. No matter what life threw at her, such as being struck in the head by a weight causing severe head trauma, she persevered. She would make up to nineteen trips to the south to deliver slaves to the north and Canada through the Underground Railroad; earning her the nickname Moses the Deliverer. Florence Nightingale was born into wealth, but had always had a fascination with mending things. At thirty-three she accepted an unpaid position as superintendent. She brought great change in healthcare for soldiers within the British army and after becoming sick she led people to continue her work. She would go on to make great changes in the field of medicine and changed how people viewed the field of medicine since.

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