Industrial Revolution
Which famous American social reformer and women's rights activist said this in a speech given in 1871: “I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.”
Susan B. Anthony
Which former slave became such a famous and successful female abolitionist that it gained her the name 'Moses of Her People'?
Harriet Tubman
This Polish physicist developed a theory of radioactivity (a term that she coined), techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the discovery of two elements, polonium and radium.
Marie Curie
Pride and Prejudice and Emma were works by this early feminist author
Jane Austen
She was a Roman Catholic Saint who led the French Army to numerous victories during the Hundred Years War.
Joan of Arc
She was one of the leading figures of the early women's rights movement and is best known for her efforts in writing the Declaration of Sentiments for the Seneca Falls Convention and for organizing the women's suffrage movement in the United States
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Ida B. Wells is best known for her work against this practice
Lynching
She was the first person to capture a photographic image in 1952, nicknamed “Photo 51,” using a technique she had honed: observing molecules using X-ray diffraction. Her work confirmed the theory on the structure of DNA.
Rosalind Franklin
Madeline L'Engle is best known for wiring what text about children rescuing their father from quantum physics gone awry?
A Wrinkle in Time
In May of 1932 Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across this ocean
Atlantic Ocean
This American workers-rights advocate served under FDR as the United States Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest ever serving in that position. She was the driving force behind the New Deal and was the first woman to ever serve in the presidential cabinet. What is her name?
Frances Perkins
Who earned a graduate degree from Oberlin College in 1888, was the first black woman to serve on a Board of Education (in D.C.), sued to integrate restaurants in the 1950’s, integrated the American Association of University Women at age 85, and was a founding member of NAACP?
Mary Church Terrell
This woman was born to enslaved parents, became the first black female millionaire, and invented the world's first hair-straightening formula.
Which of these women was not a famous author? Abby Kelley, Audre Lorde, Angela Davis
Abby Kelley
She became the first female Secretary of State of the United States, appointed by President Clinton in 1997
Madeleine Albright
This woman was a labor leader, activist, and feminist who played a leading role in the Industrial Workers of the World. She was also a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union and a visible proponent of women's rights, birth control, and women's suffrage. She was born in New Hampshire and died in the Soviet Union.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Who was denied permission to sing in the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) auditorium because of her race in 1939, but later became the first black person to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955?
Marian Anderson
This naval officer and 1934 Yale mathematics Ph.D. graduate developed the first-ever “compiler”, a program that translates programming code to machine languages, as well as one of the first high-level programming languages while working on the Harvard Mark I computer.
Grace Hopper
The novel Little Women was published in 1868 under the male pen name “A.M. Branard.” What is the real name of the author of this classic novel?
Louisa May Alcott
Despite being born in Prussia, this 18th-century woman considered herself the ideological heir to the Russian throne, likely deposed her husband in order to become empress, and remains to be the longest-ruling female leader of Russia. What is her name?
Catherine the Great (Catherine II)
This woman's involvement in the growing revolt of Kansas farmers against high mortgage interest and railroad rates in 1890 placed her at the forefront of the People's Populist Party, better known as the Populist Party. She traveled throughout Kansas, as well as the West and the South, for the cause.
Mary Elizabeth Lease
Rosa Parks is well known for her refusal to give up her seat, but the NAACP asked Rosa Parks to do this after what teenager did the same thing 9-months previous?
Claudette Colvin
This woman was one of the most glamorous stars of the black and white film era — and she was also one of the minds behind an invention that provided the foundation for GPS, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi technology. Her technology was ignored by the US Navy until the 1962 blockade of Cuba, and she was finally inducted into the National Inventor's Hall of Fame in 2014.
Hedy Lamarr
Who was the first black woman to write a Broadway play (1959) which was made into a movie (1961), “A Raisin in the Sun”?
Lorraine Hansberry
The first woman to serve in the United States Senate was appointed in October of 1922 and took the oath of office the following month. What was this woman’s name?
Rebecca Felton