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Women's History Month

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Fun Trivia : Quizzes : Famous Women : Women's History Month

Introduction:
"In honor of National Women's History Month - a quiz about American women's history."


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


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


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


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


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
    Amelia Bloomer
    Marie Corset
    Anna Henley


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?
    lulus
    Gibson girls
    women's libbers
    flappers


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


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


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


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