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An American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement.
Susan B. Anthony
Marie Curie
Julia Child
Barbara Jordan
Spent hiding from the Nazis with her family in the Secret Annex in Amsterdam, she wrote extensive daily entries in her diary to pass the time.
Rosa Parks
Jane Goodall
Amelia Earhart
Ann Frank
She was considered one of Mexico's greatest artists who began painting mostly self-portraits after she was severely injured in a bus accident.
Wilma Rudolph
Frida Kahlo
Rosa Parks
Ann Frank
Her arrest that launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Amelia Earhart
Sally Ride
Julia Child
Rosa Parks
Is remembered for her discovery of radium and polonium, and her huge contribution to the fight against cancer.
Ann Frank
Frida Kahlo
Marie Curie
Sally Ride
Made history as the first American woman in space.
Sally Ride
Jane Goodall
Wilma Rudolph
Susan B. Anthony
An aviatrix whose name is still known around the world over 75 years after her mysterious death.
Rosa Parks
Sally Ride
Amelia Earhart
Wilma Rudolph
An undeniably amazing chef, but more importantly she was an amazing person.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Susan B. Anthony
Ann Frank
Julia Child
A Nobel prize (two) winning scientist who discovered two elements on the periodic table and who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.
Marie Curie
Anne Boleyn
Dolley Madison
Conductor of Underground Railroad, nurse, spy, military leader, public speaker, and great humanitarian.
Harriet Tubman
Madam C.J. Walker
Elizabeth Keckly
She refused to give up her bus seat and became “the mother of the civil rights movement”.
Ida B. Wells
Hattie McDaniel
Rosa Parks
Teacher, nurse, founder of the American Red Cross, and legendary humanitarian.
Helen Keller
Mary Todd Lincoln
Clara Barton
A suffragist is a person who fights for:
Gender equality
Abolition
Voting rights
An end to all suffering
In the early 1800s, most women did not: (Check all that apply)
Sign their own contracts
Make political speeches
Own their own property
Did not want to vote
Free (a) started the first (b) anti-slavery group.
Working for (a) got women thinking about which (b) they (c) .
At the Seneca Falls Convention, the idea of women’s
suffrage was considered:
Extreme
Praiseworthy
Optional
Unnecessary
The 14th and 15th amendments gave the vote to...
Men of color
white women
all women
immigrants
Wyoming wanted to attract more female settlers to the territory so they passed laws like (a) , property (b) and women's (c)
When it joined the union, (a) became the only state in which women could vote.
The 19th Amendment said a person’s right to vote
did not depend on:
their age
their gender
their race
their wealth
back women’s suffrage?
Fear of losing the 1912 presidential elections
A political march on Washington
Hunger strikes
Women’s war effort during World War I
What month is Women history month?
December
March
April
January
What day is International Women day?
March 8th
February 10th
April 1st
Why is Rosa Parks a great woman of history.
She led slaves to the north.
She was first black person to attend a white school.
She help end segregation on buses
Why is Harriet Tubman a great woman of history.
She was an inventor.
She was the first woman millionaire
She led slaves to freedom.
Why is Ruby Bridges a great woman of history
She help integrate buses.
First black person to attend a desegregated school.
Wrote take me out to the ball game.
Women's History Month is celebrated in May.
True
False
Women who fought for the rights of women were called suffragists.
True
False
The International Women's Suffrage Alliance was created in 1904.
True
False
Women were always treated fairly and equally.
True
False
Two countries that joined in on celebrating the history of women were Canada and India.
True
False
Color the Women's History Month poster below.
Who was the 1st First Lady to represent the United States at the United Nations?
Ellen Wilson
Eleanor Roosevelt
Ida McKinley
Mary McKee
Jeanette Rankin was the first woman to be elected to which office?
Supreme Court Judge
Mayor
Governor
U.S. Congress
Who was the African-American woman who wrote a Broadway play called “A Raisin in the Sun” (1959).
Lorraine Hansberry
Toni Morrison
Gloria Naylor
Sharon Flake
1. Who was the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court?
Abigail Adams
Hillary Clinton
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Sandra Day O'Connor
Phyllis Schlafly
2. The first woman U.S. Supreme Court Justice began her term in what year?
1975
1981
1983
1987
1992
3. What was the first coeducational college in the United States?
Oberlin Collegiate Institute
Andover Newton College
Radcliffe College
University of Tennessee
College of William and Mary
4. Who was the daughter of the infamous Anne Boleyn?
Anne Askew
Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Mary I
Jane Seymour
Anne of Cleves
5. Who was Emily Dickinson's famous contact who helped edit her poetry?
Margaret Brent
Jennie Churchill
T. W. Higginson
Henry David Thoreau
Mary Wollstonecraft
6. Eleanor Roosevelt was orphaned at what age?
4
10
14
16
7. Who was the first modern woman to graduate from medical school?
Clara Barton
Florence Nightingale
Elizabeth Blackwell
Mary Ewing Outerbridge
8. In what year did Switzerland adopt woman suffrage?
1893
1910
1920
1939
1971
9. Who was the first African American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Jane Addams
Pearl Buck
Selma Lagerlöf
Toni Morrison
Sigrid Undset
Who was not at the Woman's Rights Convention in 1848 at Seneca Falls, New York?
Susan B. Anthony
Frederick Douglass
Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Martha Coffin Wright
11. Who was member of Harlem Renaissance, an anthropologist, and author of many books, including “Their Eyes Were Watching God”?
Lorainne Hansberry
Zora Neale Hurston
Claude McKay
Nella Larsen
In what year did American women win the right to vote?
1875
1899
1920
1905
Who was the first woman to run for President?
Hillary Clinton
Belva Ann Lockwood
Linda Jenness
Victoria Woodhull
Jeannette Rankin was the first woman elected to what?
Governor
US Congress
Mayor
Supreme Court Judge
In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to:
Be ordained a minister
Own a business
Earn a medical degree in the US
win a gold medal in the Olympics
In 1932, Amelia Earhart was the first woman to:
fly a plane
fly solo around the world
fly across the United States
Fly solo across the Atlantic
Who was the first woman to be U.S. Secretary of State?
Condoleezza Rice
Madeleine Albright
Hillary Clinton
Elizabeth Dole
Who was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
Jane Addams
Emily Green Balch
Jody Williams
Oprah Winfrey
Mary Kies was the first woman to be granted a US patent. What did she invent?
straw broom and pan
alphabet blocks
submarine telescope and lamp
technique of weaving straw with silk and thread
Lizzie Magie was the inventor of the original Monopoly; what was it called?
The Boardwalk Game
The Landlords Game
The Mortgage Game
The Real Estate Game
What was the first state to allow women to vote?
Wyoming
California
Utah
Colorado
In 1993 Cary Schueler became the first woman drafted in which sport?
hockey
basketball
baseball
football
Who was the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature?
Gwendolyn Brooks
Maya Angelou
Toni Morrison
Alice Walker
A civil rights activist and the first African American woman elected to the Texas Senate.
Jane Goodall
Barbara Jordan
Frida Kahlo de Rivera
Wilma Rudolph
An undeniably amazing chef, but more importantly she was an amazing person.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Susan B. Anthony
Ann Frank
Julia Child
The first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Rosa Parks
Sally Ride
Amelia Earhart
Wilma Rudolph
Made history as the first American woman in space.
Sally Ride
Jane Goodall
Wilma Rudolph
Susan B. Anthony
Is remembered for her discovery of radium and polonium, and her huge contribution to the fight against cancer.
Ann Frank
Frida Kahlo
Marie Curie
Sally Ride
Her arrest that launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Amelia Earhart
Sally Ride
Julia Child
Rosa Parks
She was considered one of Mexico's greatest artists who began painting mostly self-portraits after she was severely injured in a bus accident.
Wilma Rudolph
Frida Kahlo
Rosa Parks
Ann Frank
Spent hiding from the Nazis with her family in the Secret Annex in Amsterdam, she wrote extensive daily entries in her diary to pass the time.
Rosa Parks
Jane Goodall
Amelia Earhart
Ann Frank
An American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement.
Susan B. Anthony
Marie Curie
Julia Child
Barbara Jordan
At fifteen, she became a school teacher. She did this to earn money for her sister Mary's college education. At the time, Mary became blind due to Scarlet Fever and was attending Iowa College for the Blind.
Ann Frank
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Amelia Earhart
Frida Kahlo
Despite being told as a child she would never walk again, she relentlessly pursued her dreams becoming an international track and field star.
Jane Goodall
Susan B. Anthony
Ann Frank
Wilma Rudolph
A primatologist most known for her long-term study of wild chimpanzees in Tanzania.
Jane Goodall
Wilma Rudolph
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Frida Kahlo
In what year did American women win the right to vote?
1875
1899
1920
1905
Who was the first woman to run for President?
Hillary Clinton
Belva Ann Lockwood
Linda Jenness
Victoria Woodhull
Jeannette Rankin was the first woman elected to what?
Governor
US Congress
Mayor
Supreme Court Judge
In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to:
Be ordained a minister
Own a business
Earn a medical degree in the US
win a gold medal in the Olympics
In 1932, Amelia Earhart was the first woman to:
fly a plane
fly solo around the world
fly across the United States
Fly solo across the Atlantic
Who was the first woman to be U.S. Secretary of State?
Condoleezza Rice
Madeleine Albright
Hillary Clinton
Elizabeth Dole
Who was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
Jane Addams
Emily Green Balch
Jody Williams
Oprah Winfrey
Mary Kies was the first woman to be granted a US patent. What did she invent?
straw broom and pan
alphabet blocks
submarine telescope and lamp
technique of weaving straw with silk and thread
Lizzie Magie was the inventor of the original Monopoly; what was it called?
The Boardwalk Game
The Landlords Game
The Mortgage Game
The Real Estate Game
What was the first state to allow women to vote?
Wyoming
California
Utah
Colorado
In 1993 Cary Schueler became the first woman drafted in which sport?
hockey
basketball
baseball
football
Who was the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature?
Gwendolyn Brooks
Maya Angelou
Toni Morrison
Alice Walker
An American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement.
Susan B. Anthony
Marie Curie
Julia Child
Barbara Jordan
Spent hiding from the Nazis with her family in the Secret Annex in Amsterdam, she wrote extensive daily entries in her diary to pass the time.
Rosa Parks
Jane Goodall
Amelia Earhart
Ann Frank
She was considered one of Mexico's greatest artists who began painting mostly self-portraits after she was severely injured in a bus accident.
Wilma Rudolph
Frida Kahlo
Rosa Parks
Ann Frank
Her arrest that launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Amelia Earhart
Sally Ride
Julia Child
Rosa Parks
Is remembered for her discovery of radium and polonium, and her huge contribution to the fight against cancer.
Ann Frank
Frida Kahlo
Marie Curie
Sally Ride
Made history as the first American woman in space.
Sally Ride
Jane Goodall
Wilma Rudolph
Susan B. Anthony
An aviatrix whose name is still known around the world over 75 years after her mysterious death.
Rosa Parks
Sally Ride
Amelia Earhart
Wilma Rudolph
An undeniably amazing chef, but more importantly she was an amazing person.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Susan B. Anthony
Ann Frank
Julia Child
A Nobel prize (two) winning scientist who discovered two elements on the periodic table and who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.
Marie Curie
Anne Boleyn
Dolley Madison
Conductor of Underground Railroad, nurse, spy, military leader, public speaker, and great humanitarian.
Harriet Tubman
Madam C.J. Walker
Elizabeth Keckly
She refused to give up her bus seat and became “the mother of the civil rights movement”.
Ida B. Wells
Hattie McDaniel
Rosa Parks
Teacher, nurse, founder of the American Red Cross, and legendary humanitarian.
Helen Keller
Mary Todd Lincoln
Clara Barton
