1. A Native American woman who fought at Custer’s last stand
   A Native American woman who helped guide the Lewis and Clark expedition
2. An abolitionist who was influential in the Underground Railgroad
   An Alaska-native who worked to preserve sacred lands

Sacajawea was born into the Shoshone tribe and kidnapped at the age of 12. When Lewis and Clark hired her husband as a translator, Sacajawea became part of the expedition. Her language skills and knowledge of the land made her invaluable to the expedition.

1. Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi
   Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan
2. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
   Anne Hutchison and Emily Dickinson

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony formed the National Woman Suffrage Associate in 1869. Together, they promoted women’s rights across the country, writing, making speeches, and gathering conventions.

1. Fighting for teacher’s unions
   Gaining reproductive rights
2. Founding the first women’s college
   The Underground Railroad

Harriet Tubman was born into slavery and escaped to the North in 1849. She used her freedom to usher other enslaved people into freedom through the Underground Railroad. She was so notorious that there was a $40,000 reward on her life.

1. Suffragists
   Rocketts
2. Rosie the Riveter
   B***&#!

Women, and men, who worked for the right to vote were called suffragists. The right to vote is also known as “suffrage.” So don’t be fooled by satirical or nefarious campaigns to “stop women’s suffrage!”

1. Went to work
   Found other men
2. Played softball
   Had babies

The masses of men leaving for the war against Germany and Japan left a gaping vacancy in the American workforce. Millions of women stepped up to fill that gap, disrupting the gender divide in employment.

1. A set of trials where they put some witches to justice
   False accusation of over 200 women as witches
2. Witches trying out for the Salem competition
   European executions of supposed witches

While the witch craze started in Europe, the Salem Witch Trials took place in Salem, Massachusetts. Over 200 women were accused of witchcraft and 20 were put to death for supposedly being in the power of the devil. The trials can be seen as symptomatic of society’s broader distrust of powerful women.

1. 1818
   1849
2. 1928
   1947

When Elizabeth Blackwell first began seeking entrance to medical schools, there were none that accepted women. She overcame ridicule and discrimination to graduate in 1849 with a medical degree.

1. It brought together abolition and suffrage.
   She didn’t love him.
2. She did not have a dowry.
   She kept her own name.

When Lucy Stone marred Henry Blackwell in 1855, she kept her own name. This was a landmark moment because it symbolized Stone keeping her identity in marriage, rather than becoming Mrs. Henry Blackwell.

1. Susan B. Anthony
   Frances Willard
2. Margaret Sanger
   Madonna

When it was still illegal to educate people about birth control options, Margaret Sanger started the birth control movement. Her efforts led to the development of the pill in 1960 and the founding of a birth control clinic that later became Planned Parenthood.

1. Malala
   Carol W. Greider
2. Frances Arnold
   Marie Curie

Marie Curie is perhaps the best-known early female scientist. And for good reason: she discovered two elements, was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize (1903), and the first person to be awarded a second Nobel (1911).

1. Not to forget he was married
   To remember to pick something up for his daughters
2. To vote for the equal rights ammendment
   To work for women’s freedom while he was working for American freedom

Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John Adams in 1776, while he was working toward the independence of America from Britain. She adjured him to consider not giving men such power over women because women should have independence also.

1. Fight in battle
   Nurse the wounded
2. Maintain their homes alone
   Lead armies in battle

People burying the Civil War dead were surprised to find women’s bodies among those scattered across battlefields. Experts estimate that between 400-750 women disguised themselves to fight in the Civil War.

1. Madeleine Albright
   Janet Reno
2. Hillary Clinton
   Sarah Palin

Janet Reno was the first Attorney General of the United States, and she served in this position from 1993 to 2001. She was nominated by Bill Clinton.

1. Flew the first plane
   Was the first woman to make a transcontinental flight
2. Was the first woman to fly around the world
   Was the first woman to make a solo sailing voyage around the world

Amelia Earhart has been the hero of countless young girls for trailblazing the airways for women. In 1932 she made the first transcontinental flight as a woman. Her mysterious disappearance in 1939 only increases her mystique.

1. Anne Boleyn
   Princess Diana
2. Mary
   Elizabeth I

Queen Elizabeth I, the daughter of Henry III and Anne Boleyn, formally established the Protestant church in England. Later it became the Church of England. Elizabeth was the Supreme Governor of the church.

1. abolition.
   reproductive rights.
2. environmental activism.
   farm worker’s rights.

Many activists who had been working to end slavery, like Lucretia Mott, realized that the rights they were working to gain for people in slavery were also not granted to women. This realization led them to work for women’s rights as well. However, some women fighting for women's suffrage were rabid racists, including Susan B. Anthony, who once said, "I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.”

1. Keep your politics to yourself
   Keep your personality in your political views
2. Private experience is connected to political systems
   Politics determines personal experience

Feminists in the women’s movement of the 1960s and 70s explored how the similarity of women’s experiences with power in relationships, domestic violence, reproductive decisions and other issues showed that these issues were not private but part of a larger system of power politics. This idea became encapsulated in the saying “the personal is political.”

1. 1967
   1897
2. 1923
   1952

In 1967, Kathrine Switzer entered the Boston Marathon without speificying her gender on her race application. During the race, a race official ran up to her and physically tried to remove her from the race. He was blocked by Switzer’s hulky boyfriend, who was running alongside her. Switzer completed the race.

1. Where to now?
   Is the personal political?
2. Ain’t I a human?
   Ain’t I a woman?

Sojourner Truth, a former slave who became powerful activist for abolition and women’s rights, asks “Ain’t I a Woman?” in her most well-known speech. She breaks down perceptions that women are naturally weaker than men by painting a picture of the back-breaking labor she endured.

1. The environmental movement
   The women’s movement
2. The reproductive rights movement
   Advances in space travel

Rachel Carson’s book "Silent Spring" called America’s attention to the widespread ecological damage being done by the rampant use of pesticides. The awareness Carson raised burgeoned into a broader concern for how we could better care for our ecosystem.

1. Malala Yousafzai
   Marie Curie
2. Donna Strickland
   Tu Youyou

Malala Yousafzai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 for her heroic efforts to withstand the threats of the Taliban against girls going to school. After surviving a Taliban attack against her bus and undergoing many surgeries, Malala returned to the struggle of gaining education for girls globally.

1. Marco Rubio
   Sonia Sotomayor
2. Ruth Bader Ginsberg
   Elena Kagan

Sonia Sotomayor was confirmed as the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice and the third woman on the Supreme Court in 2009. Sotomayor says she was first inclined to the law profession after watching Perry Mason.

1. Serena Williams
   Gaby Douglas
2. Jackie Joyner-Kersee
   Jenny Thompson

Jackie Joyner-Kersee, according to USA Track & Field, is thought by some to be “the greatest female all-around athlete in history.” She won three gold medals, and still holds the record for heptathlon.

1. She set in motion a youth climate movement.
   She stood up for her desire not to be in school.
2. She was too smart to be there anyway.
   She began a youth labor movement.

Greta Thunberg, a Swedish climate activist, began missing class to protest global inaction on climate change. Her efforts, at 16 years old, ignited a worldwide youth movement protesting climate change and demanding action.

1. A politician involved in suffrage
   A female novelist
2. An avant-garde artist
   A revolutionary hero

George Eliot was the pen name of Marian Cross, a British novelist in the 19th century. Eliot was a voracious intellectual and wrote the masterpieces "Silas Marner" and "Middlemarch."

1. A new disease
   A dinosaur
2. A new comet
   A new casserole

Maria Mitchell discovered a new comet and was awarded a medal by the King of Denmark. Mitchell found the comet with a telescope, and it was aptly named “Miss Mitchell’s Comet.”

1. Water
   Fish food
2. A bicycle
   Algae

Gloria Steinem said that “a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.” Steinem, a feminist activist and writer, was a leading figure of the women’s movement of the 1960s and 70s and is still actively making blisteringly accurate statements and working for women’s rights.

1. Patsy Takemoto Mink
   Toni Ko
2. Anna May Wong
   Constance Wu

Anna May Wong first graced the screen when she was 14 in the 1919 silent film, "The Red Lantern." Wong had a starring role at age 17, but was often cast in roles that played out racist stereotypes of Asian women. She eventually left the US for Europe.

1. JK Rowling
   Virginia Woolf
2. Emily Dickinson
   Charlotte Bronte

Virginia Woolf was a modernist genius who changed the way stories are told. Her novels, such as "To the Lighthouse" and "Mrs. Dalloway," broke new ground in describing how intricate psychological perceptions define daily life. A recent movie depicts the torturous love affair between Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. JK Rowling is more 21st century.

1. 1919
   1963
2. 1975
   2007

President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law in 1963, amid a swath of Civil Rights legislation. The law made it illegal to pay men and women different salaries for the same work requirements. Of course, the wage gap is still alive and well — the AAUW estimates that white women make 80% of what men do, while women of color make considerably less.

1. The first women’s convention
   The first abolitionist convention
2. The first LGBT convention
   The largest protest for women’s suffrage

The Seneca Falls Convention was the first large gathering of women in the US to discuss women’s rights. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and others led discussions on the need for action and shared the Declaration of Sentiments, a compilation of resolutions for change.

1. Sexual harassment at work
   Equal pay
2. Sexual discrimination at school
   Women in sports

Title IX, passed into law in 1972, prohibits discrimination based on sex in any educational activity or program that receives federal funding. The law is widely understood as protecting equality in school sports, which it does, but it also has much broader applications across the education landscape.

1. Brittany Spears
   Lise Meitner
2. Rosalind Franklin
   Chien-Shiung Wu

Born near Shanghai, Wu moved to the US after graduate work in physics and finished a PhD at Berkeley in 1940. She went on to contribute to the Manhattan Project and later helped to disprove the Law of Conservation of Parity. I hadn’t heard of her either. That’s how herstory works.

1. Farming, harvesting, and running a homestead
   Staying home with children while men went out to work
2. Doing the weekly shopping
   As teachers

Before the industrial revolution, it was more common for men and women to work together running a homestead than it was for them to operate in separate worlds of “work” and “home.” Work and home were the same thing. Until the mid-nineteenth century, most teachers were men.

1. 1776
   1918
2. 1919
   1921

Congress passed the 19th Ammendment on June 4th, 1919, giving women the right to vote. It wasn’t ratified until August 18, 1920. The struggle to gain this right was an epic battle and initiated the First Wave of Feminism.