Famous Women in History
Who Was the first First Lady to have a polical and media identity separate from her husband?
Eleanor Roosevelt
When is Women's History Month?
March
Who created the first secular women's nursing school?
Florence Nightingale
Where was the first Women's Rights Convention held?
Seneca Falls, NY
First female vice president of the US?
Kamala Devi Harris
Who guided people along the Underground Railroad and was given the code name Moses?
Harriet Tubman
In What Year did women gain the right to vote?
1920
Who founded the American Branch of the Red Cross?
Clara Barton
What to the initials in the ERA amendment stand for?
Equal Rights Amendment
Which was the first US territory to allow women to vote?
Wyoming
Who was the first women to fly solo across the Atlantic?
Amelia Earhart
What year did Sally Ride become the first women in space?
1983
Who was the First Registered African American Nurse?
Mary Eliza Mahoney
What political party created women's History Month?
The Socialist Party
First women to win a gold medal in the Olympics?
Charlotte Cooper
A Pioneer in the field of computer programming, she helped develop some of the first compiled languages and has a yearly conference celebrating women named after her.
Grace Hopper
When was the Equal Pay Act Passed?
1963
Who was the first accredited female doctor in the US?
Elizabeth Blackwell
First female Supreme Court Judge?
Sandra Day O'Conner
A muckraking journalist who exposed the poor treatment of the mentally ill.
Dorthia Dix
The first woman in modern history to lead a major Native-American Tribe, the Cherokee Nation?
Wilma Mankiller
When was the Equal Credit Opportunity Act passed which allowed women to own credit cards in their own names?
1974
Mary Jane Seacole, a Jamacian self-trained frontline nurse in the Crimean War, was known by what nickname?
Mother Seacole
What percentage of the us congress is currently female?
28% the highest in US history
US tennis player ranked number 1 in World Women's Tennis Association for 319 weeks.
Serena Jameka Williams