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.
(League of Women Voters). Washington -- The women's rights movement in the United States began in Seneca Falls, New York, in July 1848 when Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott called for a convention to discuss the social, civil and religious condition and rights of woman..ut it would be almost eight years before the two women met again and called for such a convention in Seneca Falls, New York. Mott and Cady Stanton had plenty of ammunition in calling for a forum on women's rights.