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? Lucy Stone Clara Barton Dorothea Dix Carrie Nation

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? 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. Amelia Bloomer Marie Corset Elizabeth Weskit 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? Gibson girls lulus flappers women's libbers

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? 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