Women of Accomplishment

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Jane Adams
What causes did the members of Hull House support?
http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/ja_bio.html

Clara Barton
Why wasn't she permitted to work with the International Red Cross?
http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/bart-cla.htm

Hillary Clinton
To what official role did President Bill Clinton appoint her?
http://www.wic.org/bio/hclinton.htm

Marie Curie

What did Marie Curie discover? 

http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/explore/inventions/curie_marie.html

Bessie Coleman

Why did Bessie go to France to pursue her dream?

http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/cole-bes.htm

Amelia Earhart
What was Earhart's role on her first transatlantic flight?
http://www.ninety-nines.org/earhart.html

Equal Rights Amendment
Who wrote the ERA, passed by the Senate in March 1972?
http://www.now.org/issues/economic/cea/history.html

Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Which president nominated her to the Supreme Court?
http://www.supremecourthistory.org/justice/ginsburg.htm

Jane Goodall

How did Jane Goodall first become involved in the study of chimpanzees?

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/goodall/story.html

Anne Hutchinson
Why Did Anne Hutchinson leave the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAhutchinsonA.htm

Jackie Joyner-Kersee
How many Olympic medals did she earn?
http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00016055.html

Helen Keller
What is the title of her autobiography?
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=91

Billy Jean King
What major accomplishment did she obtain as a tennis player?
http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/king-bj.html
http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00016060.html

Juliette Gordon Low
What things did Juliette Low bring to the formation of the Girl Scouts?
http://www.girlscouts.org/who_we_are/history/low_biography/

Sandra Day O'Connor
What "first" did she accomplish in the Arizona Senate?
http://www.loc.gov/rr/women/oconnor.html

Georgia O'Keeffe
Which museum presented the first retrospective exhibit of work by a woman artist?
http://www.okeeffemuseum.org/background/index.html

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
What job did Jackie have before she married John F. Kennedy?
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/jk35.html

Rosa Parks
How many days did the Montgomery bus boycott last?
http://www.grandtimes.com/rosa.html

Molly Pitcher
What heroic acts did she perform during the Battle of Monmouth, in June 1778?
http://sill-www.army.mil/pao/pamolly.htm

Janet Reno and Madeleine Albright
What jobs did these women hold during Bill Clinton's presidency?
http://www.wic.org/bio/jreno.htm
http://secretary.state.gov/www/albright/albright.html

Sally Ride
What sport did this famous astronaut play as a young woman?
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/ride.html

Eleanor Roosevelt

What were some of the causes Eleanor Roosevelt strongly supported?

http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/roos-ele.htm

Betsy Ross
Who asked her to make the first American flag?                                                                                      http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flagtale.html                                                                                           http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flaglife.html

Wilma Rudolph
What did Wilma do in the Olympics and what did she overcome to achieve them?
http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00016444.html

Sacajawea
What famous team of explorers did she travel with?
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nwa/sacajawea.html

Gloria Steinem
Which two magazines did she help found?
http://www.gale.com/free_resources/whm/bio/steinem_g.htm

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
What prominent organization was led by these two women?
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/women/suffrage.html

Mother Teresa

Why did Mother Teresa devote her life to the poor?

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1979/teresa-bio.html

Harriet Tubman
By what nickname did slaves call her?
http://www.civilwarhome.com/tubmanbio.htm

Madam C. J. Walker
How did she become the first female African American millionaire?
http://lkwdpl.org/wihohio/walk-mad.htm

Laura Ingalls Wilder

What profession did Laura Ingalls Wilder start at age fifteen?

http://www.lauraingallswilder.com/

http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/dreamteam/laurawilder.html

Oprah Winfrey

Why is Oprah called a television pioneer?

http://www.oprah.com/about/press/about_press_bio.jhtml