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.
Feminist theories first emerged as early as 1794 in publications such as A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft, âThe Changing Womanâ, â Ainât I a Woman â, âSpeech after Arrest for Illegal Votingâ, and so on.eminist history refers to the re-reading and re-interpretation of history from a feminist perspective. It is not the same as the history of feminism, which outlines the origins and evolution of the feminist movement.