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.
Martin Pugh charts the Women's Movement's origins and growth 1850-1939. When did modern feminism begin? We usually see its origin in the political ideas of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment and the French Revolution, which regarded all human beings as rational creatures who enjoyed the same fundamental rights. This gave rise to what is usually called liberal feminism or equal-rights feminism. When the French Revolution broke out in 1789 thirty-three of the famous lists of grievances presented to the Estates General expressed female demands.