1840-1900
By: Tayler Cassandra Sydney Denaija and
Dewey, Schoene,
King,
Fisher ,
Daon
Wilson
Civil War, Elephant Rock State Park , Women’s Suffrage, Laura Searing , and Susan Blow
by Denaija Fisher
 Laura
Redden Searing is a famous deaf poet
and writer.
 She was born on February 9, 1839.
 She died on August 10, 1923.
 She composed the song “Belle Missouri”, which
was the war song of the state of Missouri
during the Civil War.
 Laura’s
family moved to St. Louis after her
father died when she was young.
 Laura got very sick when she was 11 and
became deaf.
 She moved to Fulton, Missouri in 1855 to go
to the Missouri School for the Deaf.
 After she graduated, she moved back
to St. Louis and got a job as an editor
of the St. Louis Presbyterian.
 Laura
wrote articles for the St. Louis
Republican, and in 1862, she was sent to
Washington D.C. to write about the Civil War.
 While in Washington D.C, where she wrote
her first book, Notable Men.
 She wrote a book of poems in 1864 called
Idylls of Battle about the Civil War.
 She continued to write articles for many
different newspapers.
 In
1865, Laura went to Europe and fell in love
with Michael Brennan when she was in Italy.
 They got engaged, but Michael died from an
aneurysm before they got married.
 In 1876, she married Edward Whelan Searing, a
lawyer from New York.
 She had a daughter named Elsa in 1880,
but then got divorced from Edward in
1889.
 In 1898, she married Roderick Marsten,
but they divorced in 1904.
 Laura’s
daughter Elsa grew up and moved to
Alaska.
 In 1904, Elsa married John L. McGinn.
 They had two children named Laura
and John.
 Laura
Redden Searing moved in with Elsa’s
family.
 It had been a long time since Laura had
published her writing, and Elsa decided to
help Laura.
 Elsa got a book of her
mother’s poems and stories
published in 1921.
 Two years later, Laura died
at the age of 84.
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t/2290.html
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/multimedia/2007/pages/women/searing.ht
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foBits?locID=ball40762
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An American educator
Born on June 7, 1843 in St.
Louis.
Died on March 27, 1916 in
New York.
She had 5 younger brothers
and sisters.
Someone came to her house
to teach her until she was 14
and started going to school.
Her family was very rich.
She went to Germany and met
Friedrich Froebel, who was a teacher in
Germany.
She decided she wanted to be a teacher after
meeting him.
Learned how to be a teacher in New York at
the New York Normal Training
Kindergarten.
 In 1873, she started the United States’ first
public kindergarten.
 It was at Des Peres School in Carondelet.
 Her classroom was bright and colorful, had blocks
and toys, and small desks for the little kids.
 Most classrooms were dark and gloomy, so her
classroom was very different.
She started teaching people how to
teach kindergarten.
She taught at Columbia University
from 1905 – 1909.
She wrote four books about how to be a
kindergarten teacher.
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http://www.froebelfoundation.org/people/Blo
w.html
http://www.women-philosophers.com/SusanBlow.html
http://www.historyhappenshere.org/node/6931
http://www.froebelweb.org/images/blow.html
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/
Susan_Blow
The Women’s Suffrage
By: Sydney King
How It Started
The Women's Suffrage movement started in
1848 at the Siena Falls Convention.
o Susan B. Anthony spoke with a lot of
important people from the government about
what she thought about men getting the right
to vote and not women .
o
Who Started It ?

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady
Stanton were the first to tell the
government and many other people what they
thought of men having the right to vote but
not women, and many other rights women
didn't have.
Who Was In It ?
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There were lots of women and very few men that had
the same idea of women’s rights, like Lucy Stone and
Julia Ward Stone.
They may have not started it, but they did help make
the associations and organizations that are still here
today teaching people about women’s suffrage.
What They Did
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A lot of the women in the suffrage movement started
to protest about what they thought was right or
wrong.
Some women started to hold marches and protested by
holding up posters in front of different places.
Men had to vote to allow women to vote.
When It Ended?
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The women's suffrage movement ended in the year of
1920 when the 19th amendment was passed.
After long years of protest, they finally won.
Now women have had their fair say in everything
when it comes to politics.
Fun Facts
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Did you know that Susan B. Anthony dressed up like a man so
she could vote? She was caught and put in jail, then refused to
pay the $100 fine, but in the end she ended up voting anyway .
Did you know that Woman's Suffrage was 72 years long!!!!!
In 1915, only eleven states let women vote.
Work Cited
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www.Scholastic.com
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www.NAWSA.com
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www.HultonArchive.com
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www.wikipedia.org
WAR
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The Civil War was fought in 10,000 different places. Over 600,000
men died in it.
•
They fought big battles miles away from their home.
•
They first found themselves only 20 miles from their own front door
once they were in the army.
•
If you lived in the South during the war you lost a lot of family
members.
•
The Civil War has many names, for example: The War Between the
States.
•
The men knew they were making history and were proud to risk their
lives for that.
WEAPONS
• They had Iron Clad ships, Gatling guns,
Observation Balloons, Repeating Rifles, and
submarines.
• They used old guns and made them better in the
war. It helped them win the war, because
eventually we did!
THE BATTLES
• The battles of the Civil War were one of the most
important things in the U.S.
• It was also one of the most violent scariest wars.
• After the war in Fredericksburg it was a disaster all the
houses were torn in half.
ROBERT E. LEE
• Robert E. Lee was born on Jan.19,1807 and was the general
of the Confederates (south).
• He was the fifth child , his dad is Henry Lee , on June 30,
1831 he married Mary Anne Randolph Custis .
ULYSSES S. GRANT
• Ulysses S. Grant lived in St. Louis and had a farm that is famous.
• You can explore and learn about him .
• In the Civil War Ulysses S. Grant didn’t give up and he’s part of the reason we won.
• He was also the general that lead the Union (north).
WORK CITED
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant
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http://www.civilwar.com/
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http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/KidsInfoBits?subTopic=U.S.%2BHistory&lo
cID=ball40762&failover=0&topic=History%252C%2BGovernment%2B%2526%2B
Social%2BStudies&c=1&searchTerm=United%2BStates%2BCivil%2BWar%252C%
2B1861-1865&ste=5&tbst=tsrch&tab=1&bConts=39
History of the Rocks
The stars of Elephant Rock State Park
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1.5 billion years ago hot magma formed
boulders…
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250 million years ago the cracks fell off the
boulders…
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It got it’s name…
History on the Quarries
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19th century quarries...
 Pink granite blocks…
Entertainment
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Picnicking, hiking, climbing, and biking…
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Bird watching, fishing, and tours…
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A great place for families…
Trails
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Handicapped useable Trail…
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Non-handicapped Trails…
Interesting Facts
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Dumbo the rock…
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Nearby Town…
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Governor's Mansion…
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Algae Lichen…
Work Cited
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http://mostateparks.com/park/elephant-rocks-state-park
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22History+of+Elephant+Rock+State+Pa
rk%22&hl=en&lr=&safe=active&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=F
ylyT_XnD8rUgAe3bhb&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CBQQ_AUoAQ&biw=136
6&bih=600
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elephant_rock_state_park_(5089834
607).jpg
http://www.stateparks.com/elephant_rocks_state_park_in_missouri.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_Rocks_State_Park
http://www.rollanet.org/~conorw/cwome/05_12-18-2005_elephant_rocks.jpg
http://www.missouri-vacations.com/elephant-rocks-state-park/
http://www.mountainproject.com/v/elephant-rocks-state-park/106328972