Women Warriors for Equality Quiz | Social History

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1. This American activist, grew up in a Quaker farming family in Adams, Massachusetts that fought to end slavery. She experienced sexual discrimination for the first time herself when she learned her teaching wages were much lower than those of her male colleagues. Can you tell me who this lady is?

Answer: Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony never did marry or have any children of her own, and in 1845 the family would relocate to Rochester, New York. There she would join forces with notable and determined abolitionists, Frederick Douglas, and William Lloyd Garrison. Between the three of them, they would lobby and form organizations that promoted anti-slavery, equal wages, voting rights and favorable working conditions for everybody.

2. This Belgian activist, founded one of the earliest maternity centers in all of Europe, and in 1916 would spend two years in a prison after it was revealed she was behind a secret literary network. This network allowed communication between soldiers and their families after Germany invaded Belgium in 1914. Who was this woman?

Answer: Martha Bol Poel

The two years, Martha Bol Poel, spent in prison took an enormous toll on her health and she became gravely ill. The severity of this played a factor in her being part of a prisoner swap, after which she would be released and forced into exile in Switzerland until the war was over.

She would later play a major role in the formation of numerous organizations that promoted equality of women, and would go on to become president of the International Council of Woman (ICW).

3. In the United States a woman sought political office almost 50 years before women were granted the right to vote?

Answer: Yes

In 1872, Victoria Woodhull of Homer, Ohio ran for the highest office in the United States under the Equal Rights Party. Victoria was highly controversial in her time; she advocated for prostitution to be legalized, and after publishing an article from the newspaper she owned with her sister accusing a very popular minister of adultery she would end up spending election day in jail.

4. This Swiss activist is credited with being one of the first females in society to give a public political speech, and proposing a women's peace organization which was a first in Europe. Do you know who accomplished these historic firsts for females?

Answer: Jeanne Marie Pouchoulin Goegg

In 1868, Marie Goegg, authored a piece in a journal titled "The United States of Europe". In the article Marie wrote about how there needs to be a separate peace society for women, since men had established their own one year earlier in Geneva named The International League for Peace and Liberty. Marie also insisted in her published piece that ladies have an equal voice within the International League for Peace and Liberty (IPL); which they would a year later.

5. This activist and one of Netherlands' first female physicians discovered as a pediatrician and gynecologist. Most of her patients' health issues were caused not by diseases, but rather the social conditions they lived in. This prompted her to take action for equality. Who was this lady?

Answer: Aletta Jacobs

Aletta Jacobs was the eighth of eleven children born to Anna de Jongh and Abraham Jacobs. Many of her siblings as well as her father were all physicians, and this prompted her to become one too.

Shortly after graduating from Amsterdam University in 1879, and working as pediatrician and gynecologist, she realized her patients' ailments were caused by their social position. For example, many of her female patients spent very long hours on their feet as shop clerks - causing back problems. Incidents like this led her to apply pressure on the government to limit hours and for shop owners to provide seating for its employees.

6. The 19th Amendment (U.S.) that granted women the right to vote was ratified in 1920. In fact, a senator from this west coast state had tried to introduce that original piece of legislation back in 1878. What state did this senator represent?

Answer: California

The republican senator from California, Aaron A. Argent, introduced that same exact bill back in 1878, but would fail to get any momentum. That same bill would continuously be reintroduced every year for the next 40+ years until the U.S. House would finally pass it in 1919.

7. This French activist penned several controversial plays including "A Generous Man" that highlighted how females are excluded from power positions, and "Black Slavery" a treatise that strongly advocated for the abolition of slavery. Who is this lady?

Answer: Olympe de Gouges

Olympe de Gouges public support for equality for not only females, but anybody who was being disenfranchised in a society dominated by wealthy French men. This would lead to a lot of threats and hostile heckling when she would speak publicly. It would be her criticism of dictator Maximilien Robespierre, and the guillotining of Louis XVI that became the catalyst for her own death by hanging in 1793.

8. This 17th century activist and scholar entered a convent in-order to continue her self-studying of theology, rhetoric and physics, to name just a few subjects, so she wouldn't have to stop by being forced into marriage and having children. Pick the lady that was able to assemble the largest collection of educational books of her era with help from her grandfather?

Answer: Juana In�s de la Cruz

Juana In�s de la Cruz's love and passion for wanting to learn led to the accumulation of as many as 4,000 volumes in her private library. This massive collection most of which was handed down from her grandfather ranged widely from music, geometry and architecture to rhetoric, theology and physics that I already mentioned.

Her self studies would go on to draw the attention of her peers at the convent, and she soon felt the wrath of the leadership. She was accused of neglecting her religious duties because she allotted too much time to "profane" studies and her studying eventually stopped altogether.

9. This Pakistani activist worked most of her adult life fighting for democratic rights for the people of India and Pakistan. She operated primarily through the All-India Muslim Women's Committee, and fought vigorously for educational opportunities for females, and to put an end to child marriages. Which of these ladies established a medical school for women?

Answer: Fatima Jinnah

Fatima Jinnah wasn't the only person from her family to fight for people's rights. Her older brother whom she was extremely close to, Ali Jinnah, would fight for the rights of Muslims who were the minority in India before Pakistan would gain its independence in 1947.

After Ali Jinnah passed away a year later, Fatima, would spend a period of time depressed and secluded from public life. The climax of Fatima's political career would be in 1964 when she would run for president of Pakistan, a race that she would go on to lose.

10. It took numerous states in the U.S. to ratify the 19th amendment. Which of the following states was the last to do so?

Answer: Mississippi

Sadly it took eight states more than 40 years before they would ratify the 19th amendment. Those eight and the years they did so are as followed:

Maryland in 1941
Virginia in 1952
Alabama in 1953
Florida in 1969
Georgia in 1970
Louisiana in 1970
North Carolina in 1971
Mississippi in 1984

Source: Author Deadwood003

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