Victoria Woodhull Trivia Quiz

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.

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.

Answer: New York

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

Answer: She was the first woman to run for president and open a stockbrokerage firm.

Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president and open a stockbrokerage firm. It is often said that she was the woman to publish a newspaper and speak before congress, but neither of those honors belong to her, although she was among of the first.

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.

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.