key dates

Question 1

NWSA and AWSA, rival suffrage organisations founded

Answer 1

1869

Question 2

Women’s Christian Temperance movement

Answer 2

1874

Question 3

Formation of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
rival suffrage organisations united

Answer 3

1890

Question 4

Margaret Sanger set up first US birth-control clinic

Answer 4

1917

Question 5

House of Representatives passed the women’s suffrage (nineteenth) amendment

Answer 5

1919

Question 6

Frances Perkins became the first woman in a presidential cabinet

Answer 6

1933

Question 7

USA entered WW2.

7 million women supported the war effort

Answer 7

1941

Question 8

Number of men and women voting was approximately equal for the first tie

Answer 8

1957

Question 9

Equal Pay Act

Answer 9

1963

Question 10

Betty Friedans ‘The Femminine Mystique’

Answer 10

1963

Question 11

National Organization for Women founded

Answer 11

1966

Question 12

ERA passed by Congress but never ratified

Answer 12

1972

Question 13

in Roe v Wade the SC established a woman’s right to abortion

Answer 13

1973

Question 14

Geraldine Ferraro was the first woman vice presidential candidate of a major political party (democratic party)

Answer 14

1984