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This woman gave her famous "Ain't I A Woman" speech at the Women's Rights Convention.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
100
This document was signed at Seneca Falls.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
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"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex."
What is the 19th Amendment?
100
Women were given the right to vote in this year.
What is 1920?
100
This is the place where the first Women's Convention was held.
What is Seneca Falls, New York?
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This woman led the National Women's party. She demonstrated against "Kaiser Wilson" with marches and hunger strikes.
Who is Alice Paul?
200
She was the most active First Lady. She influenced the politics of the government.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
200
Legalized abortion overriding many anti-abortion state laws.
What is Roe v. Wade?
200
The belief that the natural sphere of women and women's activities was the home and family.
What is the "cult of domesticity?"
200
This year marks the beginning of the Women's Movement.
What is 1848?
300
This woman established Hull House in Chicago, IL.
Who is Jane Addams?
300
Here women educated immigrants, helped newcomers to cope with American big-city life, provided childcare for working mothers, and cultural activities for neighborhood residents. These places Hull House is an example of this.
What are settlement houses?
300
First proposed in 1923 by Alice Paul, won Congressional approval in 1972. It's advocates were “bitter women seeking a constitutional cure for their personal problems.”
What is the Equal Rights Amendment?
300
Pioneered by Margaret Sanger in 1921. It gave women some control over their lives.
What is birth control?
300
From this movement, women learned tactics and ideas.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
400
This woman was an anti-feminist. She travelled the country promoting "STOP ERA," arguing the ERA would violate "the right of a wife to be supported by her husband."
Who is Phyllis Schlafly?
400
This court case said that laws to protect women were needed for the chemical effects were harsher on women's weaker bodies.
What is Mueller v. Oregon?
400
Reversed Mueller v. Oregon and invalidated a minimum wage law for women. Because women were now the legal equal of men, they would no longer be protected by special legislation.
What is Adkins v. Children's Hospital?
400
The idea of if republic were to succeed, women must be schooled in virtue so they could teach their children.
What is "republican motherhood?"
400
Seeks to end sexual discrimination, especially in the workplace, by means of legislative lobbying, litigation, and public demonstrations.
What is the National Organization for Women (NOW)?
500
This woman was the director of the Office of Minority Affairs in the National Youth Administration. She was also the highest ranking African American woman in the FDR administration.
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?
500
She was the first woman Cabinet member.
Who is Frances Perkins?
500
"No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational program or activity receiving federal financial assistance."
What is Title IX of the Education Amendments?
500
This book by Betty Friedan describes the dissatisfaction felt by middle-class American housewives with the narrow role imposed on them by society.
What is The Feminine Mystique?
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These two groups (National Women's Suffrage Association and American Women's Suffrage Association) joined together to form this.
What is the National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA)?
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