Womens significance test 3/21

Harriet tubman

conducter of the underground railroad

Sally ride

1st female astronaut

Babe Didrickson Zaharias

Multi sport athlete, American athlete who excelled golf, basketball, track, won gold metal in 1968

Louisa May Alcott

wrote “Little women” portrayed strong female characters, sufferagist

Lucretia mott

abolitionist, suffragist, a quaker, person to said to have a ignited women’s rights movement

Ida B. Wells

NAACP and anti-lynch journalist

Shirley Chisholm

1st African American female elected to congress

Eleanore roosevelt

longest serving lady, worked for human rights, called “first lady of the world”

Helen Keller

author, activist, lost vision and hearing when she was a baby, advocate for hose with disability in her life

Elizabeth Cady stanton

help organize seneca falls conventon upstate NY (1848), main author of declaration of sentiments for women’s rights

Clara barton

civil war nurse, founder American red cross, nicknamed “angel of the battlefield”

Dorothia Dicks

worked with mentally ill, established assylums

Sandra Day O’Connor

1st women to serve on the supreme court

Abigail Adams

2nd 1st lady, wife of John adams

Ella Fitzgerald

famous jazz singer,”queen of jazz”

Susan B. Anthony

1st female ever on the U.S coin, silver dollar. womens right advocate, leading sufferagist, abolitionist

Lucy Stone

abolitionist and suffragist, 1st women from Massachusettes to earn a college degree

Jeanette Rankin

1st women elected in congress

Amelia Earheart

1st female to fly solo against the Pacific ocean

Sacajawea

native american served as a guide and translator of lewis and Clark expedition

harriet Beecher stowe

author, wrote “uncle toms cabin” which mocked slavery

Kamala Harris

1st female to become vice president

Grace hopper

navy admiral, famous computer scientist and mathematician

Elizabeth blackwell

1st female doctor in American history (1849)

Molly Pitcher

“mary haze”, filled in her for husband and got soldiers water Battle of Monmouth