Famous American Women

Question 1

2nd First Lady; advocated for women education, property, and marital rights

Answer 1

Abigail Adams

Question 2

Founder of American Red Cross

Answer 2

Clara Barton

Question 3

Established Mount Holy Oak College for women

Answer 3

Mary Lyon

Question 4

Set up African American private school; advised FDR about rights for blacks

Answer 4

Mary McCleod Bethune

Question 5

Main strategist to bring about the 19th amendment

Answer 5

Alice Paul

Question 6

1st woman to graduate from medical school; doctor

Answer 6

Elizabeth Blackwell

Question 7

Changed the role of 1st lady by participating in UN; wrote a news column

Answer 7

Eleanor Roosevelt

Question 8

US Secretary of Labor; 1st women on cabinet

Answer 8

Frances Perkins

Question 9

1st woman elected to congress

Answer 9

Jeanette Rankin

Question 10

1st African American Woman elected to congress; major woman nominee for President

Answer 10

Shirley Chisholm

Question 11

1st female VP candidate

Answer 11

Geraldine Ferraro

Question 12

1st woman supreme court justice

Answer 12

Sandra Day O’Connor

Question 13

Joined NASA; first american woman in space

Answer 13

Sally Ride

Question 14

1st first lady to have held a different office job; Major woman presidential candidate

Answer 14

Hillary Clinton

Question 15

1st female African American Senator

Answer 15

Carol Moseley-Braun

Question 16

US UN Ambassador; 1st female secretary of state

Answer 16

Madeleine Albright

Question 17

1st woman to serve on major corporation board (Coca-Cola)

Answer 17

Lettie Pate Whitehead

Question 18

1st woman to serve as attorney general

Answer 18

Janet Reno

Question 19

1st Latina supreme court justice

Answer 19

Sonya Sotomayor

Question 20

1st African American female Secretary of State

Answer 20

Condoleezza Rice