Influential Women in History

A collection of vocabulary flashcards covering influential women in science, civil rights, aviation, art, and leadership based on the lecture notes.

Marie Curie

A scientist born in Poland in 1867 who discovered the elements radium and polonium; she was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and is the only person to win Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry.

Rosa Parks

An American civil rights activist whose 1955 refusal to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Amelia Earhart

A pioneering American aviator born in 1897 who became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932.

Frida Kahlo

A Mexican artist born in 1907 known for personal self-portraits that explored themes of identity, pain, and Mexican culture following a serious bus accident.

Malala Yousafzai

A Pakistani activist for girls' education who survived a 2012 attack by the Taliban and became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014.

Susan B. Anthony

A 19th-century American leader in the women's rights movement whose work for suffrage played a major role in the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment.

Cleopatra VII

The last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt who reigned from 51 BCE to 30 BCE and formed alliances with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony.

Eleanor Roosevelt

An American diplomat and First Lady who supported social causes and helped draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for the United Nations.

Harriet Tubman

An American abolitionist born into slavery around 1822 who led others to freedom via the Underground Railroad and served as a spy and nurse during the Civil War.

Jane Goodall

A British primatologist and conservationist who began a study in Tanzania in 1960 that revealed chimpanzees use tools and have complex social behaviors.