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WorksheetsWomen History Month
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 9mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Who was the 1st first lady to live in the White House?
a)
Martha Washington
b)
Abigail Adams
c)
Dolley Madison
d)
Frances Cleveland
2.
Who was the 1st First Lady to win an Emmy Award?
a)
Jackie Kennedy
b)
Rose Cleveland
c)
Edith Roosevelt
d)
Ellen Wilson
3.
Who was the 1st First Lady to run for President?
a)
Barbara Bush
b)
Michelle Obama
c)
Sarah Palin
d)
Hillary Clinton
4.
Who was the 1st First Lady to represent the United States at the United Nations?
a)
Ellen Wilson
b)
Eleanor Roosevelt
c)
Ida McKinley
d)
Mary McKee
5.
Jeanette Rankin was the first woman to be elected to which office?
a)
Supreme Court Judge
b)
Mayor
c)
Governor
d)
U.S. Congress
6.
In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first U.S. woman to:
a)
earn a medical degree in the US
b)
own a business
c)
become an ordained minister
d)
win a gold medal in the Olympics
7.
In 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to:
a)
fly solo across the Atlantic
b)
fly a plane
c)
fly in the Air Force
d)
fly around the world
8.
Who was the first U.S. woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
a)
Oprah Winfrey
b)
Jody Williams
c)
Jane Addams
d)
Emily Greene Balch
9.
In 1884, who addressed The House of Representatives, arguing for an amendment to the US Constitution that granted women the right to vote?
a)
Susan B. Anthony
b)
Jane Addams
c)
Belva Lockwood
d)
Alice Blackwell
10.
What was the first state to allow women to vote?
a)
Wyoming
b)
California
c)
Utah
d)
Colorado
11.
In which year did American women win the right to vote?
a)
1930
b)
1920
c)
1875
d)
1905
12.
Who was the African-American woman who wrote a Broadway play called “A Raisin in the Sun” (1959).
a)
Lorraine Hansberry
b)
Toni Morrison
c)
Gloria Naylor
d)
Sharon Flake
13.
Who was the first woman to be named U.S. Secretary of State?
a)
Madeleine Albright
b)
Elizabeth Dole
c)
Carol Moseley Braun
d)
Condoleeza Rice
14.
Who was the first African American woman to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Literature?
a)
Toni Morrison
b)
Gwendolyn Brooks
c)
Octavia E. Butler
d)
Alice Walker
15.
Who was the first woman Poet Laureate of the United States?
a)
Emily Dickinson
b)
Rita Dove
c)
Maya Angelou
d)
Adrienne Rich
16.
Who helped guide and interpret for Lewis and Clark as they mapped routes to the Pacific coast?
a)
Sacagawea
b)
Pochohantas
c)
Sarah Winnemunca
d)
Wilma Mankiller
17.
Who was the first female Speaker of the House of Representatives?
a)
Nancy Pelosi
b)
Nikki Haley
c)
Elizabeth Warren
d)
Hilary Clinton
18.
Who was the first female U.S. Supreme Court Justice?
a)
Sonia Sotomayor
b)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
c)
Sandra Day O'Connor
d)
Anita Hill
19.
In 1960, at the age of six, she was the first African-American female student to integrate an elementary school in the U.S. South.
a)
Etta James
b)
Marian Wright
c)
Misty Copeland
d)
Ruby Bridges
20.
Whose book Silent Spring (1962) helped shape America’s environmental consciousness?
a)
Rachel Carson
b)
Gloria Steinem
c)
Sylvia Plath
d)
Charlotte Darwin
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