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  Victoria Woodhull, Feminist    
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Though few may know her name, Victoria Woodhull was a major force in the women's rights movement of the 19th century.
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I did a ten page report on Victoria Woodhull, as well as a speech and a website on her, so as you can probably guess I am attached to her, and, since no one else has created a quiz on her, I shall.
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She announced her plan to run for president in 1870. When did she actually run?

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Victoria Woodhull Trivia Questions
1. Victoria Woodhull was the daughter of a ______ ?

From Quiz Victoria Woodhull

Answer: thief and religious fanatic

Victoria's father was a thief and her mother was a religious fanatic. She was born in 1838 in Homer, Ohio. She lived with her family's traveling medicine show, and her father beat and starved her. Her only friend was a one-time neighbor, Rachel, who gave her the only education she received.

2. Though Victoria's first marriage to Canning Woodhull led her to one of her key beliefs, that was not her only marriage. How many times did Victoria wed?

From Quiz Victoria Woodhull, Feminist

Answer: 3

Victoria was married three times, first to Canning Woodhull, then to Colonel James Blood, and lastly to John Biddulph Martin. However, it was only from her first marriage that she had any children - Byron and Zula.

3. When Victoria was 15 whom did she marry?

From Quiz Victoria Woodhull

Answer: Canning Woodhull, a doctor

She married her doctor, Canning Woodhull at the age of 15. She found out soon, however, that Woodhull was a completely unreliable alcoholic. She had two children with him, a daughter, who nearly bled to death at birth and a son, who had brain damage. He delivered both children. She divorced him, but continued to support him by doing whatever she could.

4. A remarkable woman, Victoria was associated with people from several different radical beliefs, like Communism and anarchism. She herself was the first female in what profession?

From Quiz Victoria Woodhull, Feminist

Answer: Wall Street stockbroker

In 1870 Victoria began working as a Wall Street stockbroker, the first female to do so. Her company, Woodhull, Claflin and Company, with her sister Tennessee. The pair were aided financially by Cornelius Vanderbilt. While some newspapers were in awe of the team's success and Victoria's business savvy, several men's journals published articles linking the company and Victoria with immorality and prostitution.

5. Where did Victoria and her sister, Tennesee, move to after she divorced her first husband?

From Quiz Victoria Woodhull

Answer: New York

She moved to New York, where she happened to stumble on Cornelius Vanderbilt, who became the richest man in America.

6. What did Victoria Woodhull give Cornelius Vanderbilt that made her a millionaire?

From Quiz Victoria Woodhull

Answer: stock tips

She began to give him tips on when to buy and sell stocks. He became so amused by this petite woman that he told her that if her next tip was right he would split the profits. It proved right and she became a millionaire!

7. Victoria Woodhull received money from Conelius Vanderbilt that made her a millionaire. What did she do with the money?

From Quiz Victoria Woodhull

Answer: Opened a stockbrokerage firm

She opened a stockbrokerage firm, becoming the first woman to do so. She became very rich and invited all of the Claflins and Woodhulls to live with her.

8. She began getting interested in women's rights, and she helped found the _________ Party?

From Quiz Victoria Woodhull

Answer: Equal Rights

She was one of the founders of the Equal Rights Party. Victoria later used the party as a platform to run for president.

9. The Equal Rights Party nominated a black man for another public office. Who was he?

From Quiz Victoria Woodhull, Feminist

Answer: Frederick Douglass

When Victoria was nominated for president, they needed a vice president, and chose Frederick Douglass, a famous writer, speaker, and champion of equal rights. In Reconstruction there were several African American politicians elected to office, such as Joseph Rainey and Hiram Rhodes Revels in the answers, who were a member of the House of Representatives and a member of the Senate, respectively. W.E.B Du Bois was only about 4 when this historic event was taking place.

10. She announced her plan to run for president in 1870. When did she actually run?

From Quiz Victoria Woodhull

Answer: 1872

For two years after making her plan public she ran. Unfortunately. she spent election night in jail because of her bold statements against the country's best loved preacher, Henry Ward Beecher.

11. Victoria spent her last years abroad, exhausted from so much political activity and possibly just wanting to get away from her own infamous reputation. She moved to Europe, and stayed what country?

From Quiz Victoria Woodhull, Feminist

Answer: England

Victoria moved to England in 1876, and there she spent her remaining years, which were long considering she died nearly fifty years later. In England she divorced her second husband and married her third and last husband. After her final marriage she became known as Victoria Woodhull Martin, and began publishing a magazine, "The Humanitarian", from 1892 to 1901. After her husband's death left her a widow she left the magazine and retired.

12. In many ways Victoria was a 19th century forerunner of later, more radical feminists, like those in the 1960s and 1970s. There was a key belief of the later generations, though, that Victoria was opposed to. What was it?

From Quiz Victoria Woodhull, Feminist

Answer: abortion

Though it may seem odd, Victoria was indeed opposed to abortion. Many feminists in both the first wave and second wave movements were advocates of birth control, designed to allow more freedom for women from unwanted pregnancies. But Victoria believed that a child's life began in the womb, and discussed this in her newspaper.

13. On what grounds have doubts been raised about the legality of her running for the presidency?

From Quiz Victoria Woodhull

Answer: She may have been too young

It is sometime questioned whether Victoria's run was legal beecause she was 34 when she began her campaign, although if she had won she would have been 35 when she held office. It is debated and there is no answer, although most believe that her run was legal.

14. How old was Victoria when her tumultuous life ended?

From Quiz Victoria Woodhull, Feminist

Answer: 88

Victoria died in 1927 in England. She had lived a long and revolutionary life, marrying three times, having two children, and (outside the domestic sphere), becoming the first female president nominee; she also established her own newspaper and later magazine, and worked on Wall Street. Her ideas continue to inform much of the feminist thought, then as now, and many of her beliefs were the basis for other monumental works of later feminists. Victoria Woodhull, early feminist. If it wasn't for her and the work of other like-minded ladies like Elizabeth Cady Stantion, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony, where would women be today?

15. Victoria spent the last years of her life in ______ ?

From Quiz Victoria Woodhull

Answer: England

She fled the country for England, bankrupt and exhausted after being brought in and out of jail for making scandalous statements. The Beechers were responsible for her bankruptcy. She was fined again and again for her statements about women being able to have love affairs before they were married. Victoria married a wealthy English banker and occasionally came back for conventions, but mostly was forced to stay in England because her husband and his family were opposed to her modern ideas about free love and child labor.

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