Women's Suffrage
This amendment granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
In 2016 she became the first woman nominated for president by a major U.S. political party.
Who is Hillary Clinton?
This person was the first female vice president of the United States.
Who is Kamala Harris?
This woman is the first female Governor of New York.
Who is Kathy Hochul?
Elected in 2025, she became the first Latina to represent New Jersey in Congress.
Who is Nellie Pou?
This state was the first to pass women’s suffrage as a law, in 1869.
What is Wyoming?
This Congresswoman from New York became the first Black woman to seek a major party’s presidential nomination in 1972.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
In 1983, this astronaut became the first American woman in space aboard the Challenger.
Who is Sally Ride?
This Governor was a Navy Helicopter Pilot.
Who is Mikie Sherrill? (NJ)
This woman was first black woman elected to a county commissioner board in New Jersey.
Who was Wynona Lipman?
This Convention, held in 1848, was the first women’s rights convention and saw the signing of the Declaration of Sentiments
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
The first woman to run for U.S. president in 1872, she was a leader in the women’s suffrage movement.
Who is Victoria Woodhull?
In 1981, she became the first woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
This woman was the first openly lesbian Governor in U.S. history?
Who is Maura Healey? (MA)
Elected in 2014, she was the first black woman to represent New Jersey’s 12th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Who is Bonnie Watson Coleman?
This nation was the first to grant women the right to vote, in 1893.
What is New Zealand?
This Green Party candidate ran for president multiple times, including in 2012, 2016 and 2024.
Who is Jill Stein?
This state was the first to elect a female governor in 1924.
What is Wyoming?
This Governor was the most recent female Chair of the Democratic Governors Association.
Who is Gina Raimondo? (RI)
She was the first woman elected to Congress from the Democratic Party and the first woman elected to represent an eastern state, serving from 1925 to 1951.
Who was Mary Teresa Norton?
New Jersey allowed this group of women to vote, from 1797 to 1807.
Who are unmarried women?
This U.S. Senator from Massachusetts ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020 with plans for major economic reform.
Who is Elizabeth Warren?
After the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, this labor activist pushed for major workplace safety reforms and later became the first woman in a U.S. presidential cabinet.
Who is Frances Perkins?
This Governor recently gave the Democratic response to Trump’s State of the Union in 2026.
Who is Abigail Spanberger?
Serving from 1994 to 2001, she was the first female governor of New Jersey.
Who is Christine Todd Whitman?