WOMAN WISE


1. ________________________ Told her husband to “Remember the Ladies”
when the Declaration of Independence was written.

2. ________________________ Founded Hull House in Chicago and was the
“Mother of the Settlement House Movement”

3. ________________________ She was the author of Little Women.

4. ________________________ She promoted women’s rights in the 19th. century
and an amendment to establish women’s suffrage.

5. ________________________ She was a Civil War battle field nurse and
founder of the American Red Cross.

6. ________________________ First woman to graduate from medical school.

7. ________________________ She was a suffragist and temperance reformer who
gave her name to a shocking new fashion in
women’s wear.

8. ________________________ She wrote many novels set in China, including
The Good Earth.

9. ________________________ She was a marine biologist and science writer who
issued a clarion call to environmentalists in
Silent Spring.

10. ________________________ She wrote about the final period of frontier
life in the American West in books as My Antonia
and O! Pioneers.

11. ________________________ She was a suffragist who was instrumental in
attaining the adoption of the 19th. Amendment
and in founding the League of Women Voters.

12. ________________________ In 1967 she was the first black woman elected to
the House of Representatives.

13. ________________________ She was a crusader for mental health reform in
the mid-19th. century.

14. ________________________ In 1932 she became the first woman to fly solo
across the Atlantic.

15. ________________________ Founder of the Christian Science religion.

16. ________________________ She was the author of the 1963 The Feminine
Mystique
which sparked the modern feminist
movement. She founded NOW in 1966.
17. ________________________ Boston Transcendentalist who co-edited the Dial.

18. ________________________ She was a turn-of-the-century feminist who
authored The Yellow Wallpaper.

19. ________________________ These sisters were abolitionists and women’s
rights advocates in the mid-19th. century.


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20. ________________________ Challenged J. Winthrop; banished to Rhode Island

21. ________________________ Author of “Battle Hymn of the Republic.”

22. ________________________ She was an author who crusaded for Native
American rights. She wrote Ramona.

23. ________________________ This poet wrote “The New Colossus” which appears
on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.

24. ________________________ This last sovereign of Hawaii wrote Aloha Oe.

25. ________________________ This anthropologist studied tribal customs of
South Pacific islanders.

26. ________________________ She and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were co-convenors
of the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848.

27. ________________________ Painter whose subject was the American West.

28. ________________________ She began the Montgomery Bus Boycott by refusing
to give her seat to a white man.

29. ________________________ First woman appointed to the Cabinet; FDR made
her Secretary of Labor in 1933.

30. ________________________ She was the daughter of Powhatan.

31. ________________________ This first woman elected to Congress voted
against U.S. entry into both world wars.

32. ________________________ Indian interpreter for Lewis and Clark.

33. ________________________ Birth control advocate; founder of
Planned Parenthood.

34. ________________________ She was the first woman to serve in both houses
of Congress; 1964 became the first woman from a
major party to campaign for the presidency.

35. ________________________ She and Lucretia Mott were the co-convenors of
the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention.

36. ________________________ This feminist founded Ms. magazine.

37. ________________________ She authored Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

38. ________________________ Muckraker; wrote an expose of Standard Oil Co.

39. ________________________ This black abolitionist was a renowned speaker
who also espoused the cause of women’s rights.
40. ________________________ She was “Moses” on the Underground Railroad.

41. ________________________ 18th. century woman;first, black American poet.

42. ________________________ She was the presidential candidate for the
Equal Rights Party in 1872.