Women's History Month - week 1

Jane Addams was born in 1860. She worked to make reforms in

society during the Progressive Era. Addams focused on trying to

reduce poverty and illness in society, and she is best known as

the founder of a settlement house, the Hull House. Her work for

the goal of world peace earned her the Nobel Peace Prize.

In what city was Addams’ Hull House located?

• New York

• Pittsburgh

• Chicago

Louisa May Alcott was born in 1832 in Pennsylvania. She was an

abolitionist who briefly served as a nurse for the Union during the

Civil War before catching typhoid. She went on to become a well known writer of novels, short stories, and poems.

Her most famous novel, Little Women, was published in what year?

• 1865

• 1868

• 1872

• 1876

Marian Anderson was born in 1897. She was a talented opera singer

with a contralto voice. She faced great prejudice and discrimation

during her lifetime because she was Black. During her lifetime, she

worked for racial justice and civil rights.

In 1939, she was denied the chance to sing in Constitution Hall because

of her race. Instead she gave a famous concert in which place?

• Jefferson Memorial

• Lincoln Memorial

• The U.S. Capitol Building

Simone Biles was born in 1997. She is the most successful U.S.

gymnast of all time. At the Summer Olympic Games in 2016 in Rio

de Janeiro, Brazil, she won four gold medals (team, all-around,

vault, and floor exercise) and one bronze medal (balance beam).

Biles has won more World Championship medals than any gymnast.

In what year did she win her first World all-around medal?

• 2013

• 2014

• 2015

• 2016

Rachel Carson was born in 1907. She was an ecologist and

marine biologist who helped to start the environmentalism

movement with her 1962 book Silent Spring that warned about

pesticides and the danger they caused to the environment.

In 1980, she was posthumously (meaning after death) awarded

which honor, the highest award given to a civilian in the U.S.?

• Nobel Peace Prize

• Purple Heart

• Presidential Medal of Freedom

Bessie Coleman was born in 1892. Her brothers’ service in

World War I inspired her to become the first Black female pilot

in the U.S. Because no aviation schools in the U.S. would accept

her, she went to France to learn how to fly airplanes.

For which type of flying was Bessie Coleman best known?

• Military Flights

• Air Show performances with trick flying

• Cargo flights bringing goods from state to state

• Flying passengers across the U.S.

Misty Copeland was born in 1982. She grew up in

California and started ballet at age 13. In 2015, she was

the first Black ballet dancer to be a principal dancer for

the American Ballet Theatre.

She wrote a children’s book in 2014 entitled:

• Firebird

• Fire in My Soul

• Toe Shoes

• Head to Toe Ballerina

France Cordova was born in 1947. She is a Latina astrophysicist who

grew up in California. In 1993, Cordova was the youngest person

and first woman to serve as NASA's chief scientist. She later became

the 14th director of the National Science Foundation.

In 2012, France Cordova became president of which university?

• Tulane University

• DePaul University

• Wake Forest University

• Purdue University

Rebecca Lee Crumpler was born in 1831. She was the first Black

woman to earn a medical degree and become a doctor. She also

published a book in 1883.

What city did she move to after the Civil War to help freed slaves

receive proper medical care?

• Charleston, South Carolina

• Richmond, Virginia

• Atlanta, Georgia

• Birmingham, Alabama

Marie Curie was born in 1867 in Poland. She did pioneering

research on radioactivity. She and her husband won the 1903

Nobel Prize for Physics, making Marie Curie the first woman to win

a Nobel Prize.

She also won the 1911 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for her work

discovering which two elements?

• Radium and Polonium

• Radium and Beryllium

• Radium and Helium