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Women in Am.Hist
Famous Women in American History
Question | Answer |
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Detailed the cruel treatment of the insane in jails; her work led to the establishment of state-supported hospitals for the insane; supervised women nurses during the Civil War | Dorothea Dix |
Organized the Women's Christian Temperance Union and also worked with women's suffrage activists to combine the two causes | Frances Willard |
Founded Hull House, a settlement house for immigrants; one of founders of the NAACP; helped found the Women's Peace Party | Jane Addams |
Helped found the Social Democratic party and the Industrial Workers of the World; powerful speaker for labor | Mary Harris (Mother) Jones |
First woman to serve in a president's cabinet; was Secretary of Labor under FDR | Frances Perkins |
Founded a school for Negro Girls that is a college today; during the New Deal she was a director of Negro Affairs for the National Youth Administration | Mary McLeod Bethune |
First woman ever elected to Congress; dedicated pacifist who voted against WWI and WWII | Jeannette Rankin |
Helped organize the Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls in 1848; also helped found the National Woman Suffrage Association | Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
President of the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA) from 1900 to 1904 and then from 1915 to 1920; also helped to organize the League of Women Voters | Carrie Chapman Catt |
Campaigned against lynchings in her native Memphis, TN | Ida B. Wells |
Expelled from Massachusetts for daring to question Puritan doctrine | Anne Hutchinson |
Fought for women's suffrage using more confrontational tactics; advocated rejecting a state-by-state route as too slow and that women should push for a national amendment | Alice Paul |
Refused to give up her seat on a bus to begin the Montgomery Bus Boycott | Rosa Parks |
Championed women as grammar-school teachers since she felt that women were naturally more nurturing; wrote a book on Domestic Economy encouraging women to make their homes more efficient | Catherine Beecher |
First woman ever to sit on the Supreme Court | Sandra Day O'Connor |
Most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad; also served as a spy for federal forces in the South | Harriet Tubman |
Born a slave, she became a religious missionary, nationally famous for preaching against slavery and for women's suffrage | Sojourner Truth |
Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin to arouse anti-slavery feeling in the North | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Democratic congresswoman; was the first woman ever nominated by a major political party to run as vice president | Geraldine Ferraro |
Waged journalistic war on the trusts of the late 19th century; wrote History of the Standard Oil Company | Ida Tarbell |
Wife of Jackson's Secretary of War, she was the subject of a scandal that consumed Jackson's first term | Peggy Eaton |
Gave speeches to small groups of women about abolition for the American Anti-Slavery Society; also spoke up for women's rights | Sarah and Angelina Grimke |
Advocate of birth control to help the poor get out of poverty by having fewer babies | Margaret Sanger |
Campaigner for temperance, famous for using her axe to destroy saloons | Carry Nation |
Co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association; first woman to be depicted on a US coin | Susan B. Anthony |