Some people thought that women would make skillful teachers. Still others thought women should be trained to be leaders and have a career. ..... was one of these women. She taught herself science and mathematics. In 1821, she set up the Troy Female Seminary in New York State. There, young women learned math, history, geography, and physics. They also learned homemaking subjects.

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Some people thought that women would make skillful teachers. Still others thought women should be trained to be leaders and have a career. ____ was one of these women. She taught herself science and mathematics. In 1821, she set up the Troy Female Seminary in New York State. There, young women learned math, history, geography, and physics. They also learned homemaking subjects.

A	Susan B. Anthony
B	Emma Willard
C	Harriett Beecher Stowe
D	Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -A pioneer in women’s education, Emma Hart Willard founded Troy Female Seminary, the first school for young women in the United States. Emma Hart was the sixteenth of seventeen children, born in Berlin, Connecticut, to a family that valued education.

Detailed explanation-2: -Troy Female Seminary, subsequently called (from 1895) Emma Willard School, American educational institution, established in 1821 by Emma Hart Willard in Troy, New York, the first in the country founded to provide young women with an education comparable to that of college-educated young men.

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