Women's History Month

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. Who was known as the 'Angel of the Battlefield' because of her work as a nurse during the Civil War? Carrie Nation Lucy Stone Clara Barton Dorothea Dix

2. What year did American women gain the right to vote? 1920 1896 1848 1945

3. Where and when was the first Women's Rights Convention held in the United States? Seneca Falls, NY, 1848 Philadelphia, PA, 1776 New York City, 1900 Woodstock, NY 1970

4. Who was the first woman to graduate from medical school in the United States? Jane Addams Anna Howard Shaw Elizabeth Blackwell Margaret Sanger

5. Some 19th-century doctors thought that education was hazardous to women's health. True False

6. This 19th-century feminist designed a new style of clothing for women. The style never became popular, but her name entered the American language as a term for a specific type of garment. Elizabeth Weskit Anna Henley Marie Corset Amelia Bloomer

7. In the 1920s, young women scandalized their elders by shortening their skirts, bobbing their hair, wearing make-up, and dancing the Charleston with men whom they hardly knew. What were these young women called? Gibson girls lulus flappers women's libbers

8. Which 1920s movie star was known as the 'It' girl? Mae West Mary Pickford Clara Bow Tallulah Bankhead

9. Who made her fortune by developing a successful line of cosmetics for African American women in the early 1900s? Josephine Baker Ida B. Wells Madam C. J. Walker Sojourner Truth

10. Who was the first woman to be the vice-presidential nominee of a major political party? Geraldine Ferraro Elizabeth Dole Eleanor Roosevelt Margaret Chase Smith