Women's Quiz Soc. Studies

https://www.ncpedia.org/timeline/nc-women-barrier-breaking-moments

(slide show at the bottom and start with 1891 FYI)

only ONE statement is FALSE. Click that number

1. 1891 1st time NC makes state higher education learning for women

2. 1950 1st women's organization founded

3. 1898 Unc-ch 1st women earn's degree

4. 1920 Women's Suffrage (vote) passes nationally

5. 1920 1st women elected to NC Gen Assembly

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North Carolina Women's Colleges | NCpedia

Mark the ONE answer that is FALSE.

1. there are 4 women's colleges currently in NC

2. Many of the private colleges for women were found by churches

3. Many of the private colleges closed because of funding or fire.

4. Many of the colleges merged with one another or changed names

5. Salem College in Winston-Salem is NOT the oldest women's college in the state or nation.

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Public Education- Part 2: The Literary Fund, the Education Act, and the Growth of Common Schools | NCpedia

Mark the ONE answer that is FALSE

1. "Common" schools meant the same courses, tests, and textbooks.

2. "Normal" schools were schools for helping women to become teachers

3. Early in the 1st public schools, kids were in the same room, with multiple grades

4. schools are funded by local, state, and federal monies

5. UNC-Chapel Hill was NOT the first public university in the nation

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https://www.familyhandyman.com/article/women-property-rights-history/

Mark the ONE answer that is FALSE.

1. The Married Women’s Property Act in 1848 and the Act Concerning the Rights and Liabilities of Husband and Wife in 1860, helped women own inherited property, could own a business, and could women could file lawsuits

2. it wasn’t until the mid-1970s that a woman could access a line of credit independently without a man to cosign her application.

3. Single, widowed, divorced, and other women over the age of 18, did NOT have to bring men to a bank to co-sign anything for them to get money or a loan.

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https://www.theguardian.com/money/us-money-blog/2014/aug/11/women-rights-money-timeline-historyMark the ONE answer that is FALSE

1. US, 1924: Wyoming elects the nation’s first female governor, Nellie Tayloe Ross.

2. US, 1967: Lyndon B Johnson’s 1965 affirmative action benefits are expanded to cover women.

3. US, 1970: Schultz v Wheaton Glass: a federal appeals court decision makes it illegal for a company to change a job’s title so that they could pay women less than men

4. 1974: Equal Credit Opportunity Act passes in the US. Until then, banks required single, widowed or divorced women to bring a man along to cosign any credit application, regardless of their income.

5. US, 1978: The Pregnancy Discrimination Act is passed in the US. Until then, women could still legally be dismissed from their jobs for becoming pregnant.

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OpkWLAteJP1rAlPFSsJDzSgmLuxY3Bht/view?usp=share_link

Mark the ONE answer that is FALSE

1. Women COULD get a credit card in her name

2. Women were fired for being pregnant

3. Women could serve on a jury

4. women could serve in combat duty (front lines) in the military

5. Women could go to Ivy League (the best schools) for an education

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aiCV8tADrQfmzNQf6MWabOFtlEDIncAk/view?usp=share_link

Mark the ONE answer that is FALSE

1. WW1 took place from 1914-1918 (although the US didn't get involved until 1917)

2. The US Navy had 13,000 women enlisted and over 300 US Marine women

3. Only 100 women served as US Army nurses

4. 450 women served as telephone operators during the war (known as "Hello Girls"

5. Many women served in the factories to make ammunitions and weapons

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aiCV8tADrQfmzNQf6MWabOFtlEDIncAk/view?usp=share_link ww1 and ww2 women

Mark the ONLY answer that is FALSE

1. Women worked in the war in heavy industry, manufacturing, police, fire, etc.

2. Rationing is when you cut back on consumption of food / materials to try to help during a war effort

3. "meatless" Tuesdays and "wheatless" Wednesdays were part of rationing during the war

4. "heatless" Mondays were to save fuel for the war effort

5. The US gov't did NOT ask its citizens to sacrifice anything during WW1 and WW2.

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https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/life/2020/09/24/ruth-bader-ginsburg-8-things-she-did-womens-rights/3502065001/

Mark the ONE question that is FALSE

1. RBG was the first woman to "lie in state" (meaning she died on the job w/ the US Supreme Court & hadn't retired like other women who had served on the court, and her body was viewed in the us state capital)

2. RBG believed state funded (public) schools should all be co-educational (for both men and women)

3. One of RBG's famous quotes is: ""Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. … It shouldn't be that women are the exception."

4. Her rise as a pop culture icon has inspired books, movies and even Halloween costumes

5. RBG was NOT known for trying to help women get the same equal rights as men

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e0qtj_2Yty-Y3pZqqzsVJQe58wEj0VcF/view?usp=share_link

mark the ONLY answer that is FALSE

1. Coverture meant a woman's legal existence stopped when she got married (including all her money, property, etc. which all went to her husband and had been around for about 700 years)

2. Mississippi and Arkansas were some of the first states in the US to pass Women's property rights to help women keep their inherited property (to not allow it to automatically go to her husband)

3. North Carolina passed it's Woman's property Act in 1960.

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