Women in History

What could women NOT do in the 1800s?

• vote

• own land

• keep money

• all of the above

Which famous woman helped slaves escape to the North?

• Rosa Parks

• Harriet Tubman

• Jane Goodall

• Katherine Johnson

Rosa Parks was part of the bus boycott and protest. What does the word protest mean?

• an action that leads to a fight

• an action that shows a strong disagreement

• an action that forces people to sit in the back of the bus

• an action that removes people from riding a bus

Malala stood up for girls and women in the Middle East who wanted to...

• go to school

• work for NASA

• fight for women's rights

• work with chimps

Katherine Johnson, who worked for NASA and was AMAZING at Math, was known as...

• the first woman astronaut

• a genius

• a human computer

• a mathematician

What was the name of the FIRST WOMAN ASTRONAUT?

• Sally Ride

• Emily Dickinson

• Jane Goodall

• Katherine Johnson

Which famous woman wrote almost 1,800 poems in her lifetime, but most were found AFTER she had passed away?

• Emily Dickinson

• Georgia O'Keefe

• Sally Ride

• Jane Goodall

Katherine Johnson figured out paths that spacecraft used to travel around the Earth and land on the moon. What does the word spacecraft mean?

• ships that travel in space

• rockets

• missiles

• the International Space Station

Jane Goodall started studying chimps in 1960 and she learned that just like humans, chimps can use...

• pencils

• erasers

• tools

• computers

Marie Curie worked in Science to help find a new way to treat cancer and understand how _____________ behaves.

• science

• matter

• gas

• air

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