Sacagawea Essay

Sacagewea Sacagewea was born around 1788 in Lenhi River Valley. Which in present day is near Shashone Idah. Sacagewea is an Shashone American Indian and spoke Shashone, Hidatsa, and English.

John Paul Secrest Professor Tinsley Essay Review December 7, 2016  In this essay, the historical work that will be analyzed and reviewed is the story of Sacajawea by Harold P. Howard. This book recounts the story of Sacajawea and her journey with Lewis and Clark. Howard mainly tells the story of the Lewis and Clark expedition while focusing in on a few points about Sacajawea. The story also talks about the history of her husband Toussaint Charbonneau and son John Baptiste.

Lewis and Clark were the exploring duo that made history in the exploration of America. With the help from their entourage, Sacagawea, and others they successful explored the land President Jefferson purchased known as the Louisiana Purchase. The territories of Louisiana offered more than just the new areas but a hope for ways around North America`s coast. Meriwether Lewis was an explorer and solider born August 18,1774 near Ivy, Virginia. He grew up on Locust Hill plantation neighboring Monticello where Jefferson lived.

Many people have filled books with the vast knowledge of her accomplishments. Sacagawea was a strong woman that had many leadership and survival skills. When she was 15 or 16 she joined an expedition the would change her life. While on the 1 ½ year long journey she had helped lead and navigate through the wilderness not yet discovered. A quote from an article states, "She guided them and remembered helpful details about topography through the expedition."

To understand sacagawea’s roll in the expedition, when we think about expeditions, especially one that is this long we think of it as this massive journey, of just traveling every day, packing up and moving and going forward and trying to figure out where they were going and how they would get there and what they would eat. Sacagawea played an important role, not as a guide as she’s been mythologized into, but as a person who could read the landscape fairly well. I think she could read rivers. She could read a valley. She had a sense of what the landscape said about direction and where they were going.

The year after his wife’s death in 1820, Clark married Harriet Kennerly Radford, a widow with three children, and fathered two more sons. A generous man, Clark served as legal guardian for Sacagawea’s children, cared for numerous relatives, and offered assistance to religious groups, missionaries, explorers, and travelers. On the other hand, Clark treated his slave York harshly upon their return from the expedition, although he claimed to have eventually freed him. When Lewis and Clark had problems with illnesses or anything like that the blackfoot indians would send their women to their camp to help them.

Betsy Ross is well known due to the fact she sewed the first American flag. Elizabeth Griscom (her name given to her at birth) was born on January 1,1752 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, She was the eighth child born in a Quaker family of seventeen children. In the years to follow, she would become known as the American folk hero, Betsy Ross. When Betsy was born, her family had been in America for 4 generations. Betsy learned to read, write and sew at an early age and like most children of this time period, once she had finished her schooling, Betsy was sent to learn a trade.

Sindiwe managed to raise three children on her own while working and going to school, but that would not have been possible without the community coming to her aide when she was in need. • Unwavering hope and optimism

Abigail Adams indeed was a Revolutionary woman because she was put through so much when her husband John Adams was helping the country, when he was in office, when he was a lawyer, and since the beginning of her marriage. Adams did have a normal marriage she was put through so much because her husband’s duties always stood in the way of their marriage, and this eventually caused her to feel loneliness even though they always wrote letters to each other. However, she always saw John as a self- driven man or as, Abigail Adams: A revolutionary American Woman by Charles W. Akers describes, “ambitious, yet a man of action rather than a tortured diarist…Most of all, she saw a successful lawyer” (Akers, 20). One may say that this unique type of relationship was what helped shaped her into the inspiring women she once was. Besides being Revolutionary, Adams was also an extraordinary woman because she encouraged women to become more than just housewives, she encouraged them to become educated and literate.

Without her the expedition probably would’ve have failed. Good thing it was a success because this expedition led to the “Corps of Discovery Expedition,” which helped establish a sense of the geological and economical

Nancy Hart A frontierswoman in Georgia during the American Revolution who should be seen as one of the most important women of the time, is Nancy Hart. She is an unsung hero whose mission was to get rid of Loyalists in Georgia’s territory. Hart was also a spy for the Patriot army and is very well known in Georgia but not as much in other parts of the United States. She is unsung because so little was documented about her early life and most people showed interest in her towards the end of her life and after she died. Also many courageous actions she took do not have specific details or they are told in different ways.

After marriage came a forced and dangerous (due to her age) pregnancy for this pre-teen. After going through this situation seen as normal in her culture, she fought vigorously for the rights of education for young women like

Sacajawea was a Native American women who was born sometime in 1787. She was born in Salmon, Idaho near the Rocky Mountains. Some people believe that Sacajawea’s father was a leader of the Shoshone tribe (Tieck, 6) Sacajawea had two brothers, the oldest brothers name being chief Cameahwait and they youngest brothers name being unknown.

To support education the Foundation works in many ways.” (Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation) Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, weren't the only ones who went on their journey so they both wanted to recognize the other people who came along on their journey with them. Meriwether Lewis is a true hero for his accomplishments he made for the United States of America. Meriwether Lewis believed that going on this journey to see the Western territory/what they bought and what kind of resources were there.

She spent about 10 years guiding slaves to flee to Canada. During this act more than 38 slaves were ordinarily disenthrall from hard labor. During this rescue mission “she made most of her trips in and around December when the nights were long and fewer people were out.” (doc B), she was extremely cautious about her acts. Although, all four acts were all as important, the least important one was care-giving.