Sacagawea, born around 1788, was born into a tribe of Shoshones, near present day Idaho. She and twelve others were kidnapped during a battle and taken to North Dakota. She was pregnant with a baby when Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set up Fort Mandan near their villages. Lewis and Clark agreed to hire Sacagawea and her husband when they realized she spoke Shoshone. Knowing they would need the help of the Shoshone tribes on the banks of the Missouri, she helped guide the expedition from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean.
Elizabeth Stanton is known for having the first Women's Rights Convention. She decided to come come up with the idea when she found out the World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London was denied. She initiated the long struggle to women's rights and suffrage. She took a stand to do something she believed in even though she knew it could be denied right before her eyes and that's what makes her so courageous.
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