U.S. WOMEN’S HISTORY 2

Despite making up over half of the Earth’s population, women have often been marginalized in accounts of history. In the United States, some women have played particularly important roles as pioneers in politics and business, and leaders of the women’s rights movement. This quiz honors just some of these women.

Special thanks to Learning Life intern, Craig Gusmann, for helping to research and write this quiz.      

Despite making up over half of the Earth’s population, women have often been marginalized in accounts of history. In the United States, some women have played particularly important roles as pioneers in politics and business, and leaders of the women’s rights movement. This quiz honors just some of these women.

Special thanks to Learning Life intern, Craig Gusmann, for helping to research and write this quiz.

1. The Seneca Falls Convention is widely regarded as the start of the American women’s rights movement. Who were the women that organized the event?

Susan B. Anthony and Jane Addams

Lucy Burns and Carrie Chapman Catt

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott

Mabel Vernon and Anne Henrietta Martin

Olympia Brown and Jeannette Rankin

2. Who was the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress?

Katharine Edgar Byron

Jeannette Rankin

Sandra Day O’Connor

Patricia Schroeder

Geraldine Ferraro

3. True or False: The first female self-made millionaire in the United States was an Asian American woman.

True

False

4. Who wrote the landmark feminist book, The Feminine Mystique, and became the first President of the National Organization for Women (NOW)?

Betty Friedan

Andrea Dworkin

Catharine MacKinnon

Phyllis Schlafly

Mary Wollstonecraft

5. Which American feminist founded Ms. Magazine in 1971?

Gloria Steinem

Camille Paglia

Jean Bethke Elshtain

Jean Kilbourne

Angela Davis

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