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Carley Campbell

Who's who in the news: Valiant women of the vote

How many newsmakers can you identify in this multiple-choice quiz?

1. I was a leader of the suffrage movement. I co-wrote the Declaration of Sentiments at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and "History of Woman Suffrage."

a. Frances Willard

b. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

c. Alice Paul

2. I was a delegate for the World Anti-Slavery Convention, but I could not participate because I was a woman. I co-wrote the Declaration of Sentiments.

a. Adella Hunt Logan

b. Lucy Stone

c. Lucretia Mott

3. I became the first woman on the American dollar coin in honor of my work fighting for women's suffrage. The 19th Amendment was nicknamed after me.

a. Susan B. Anthony

b. Carrie Chapman Catt

c. Victoria Woodhull

4. I organized the first National Women's Rights Convention and founded the "Woman's Journal." I was the first Massachusetts woman to get a college degree.

a. Sarah Grimke

b. Virginia Minor

c. Lucy Stone

5. I was the president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association twice. I founded the League of Women Voters in 1920 to encourage women to vote.

a. Carrie Chapman Catt

b. Alice Paul

c. Anna Howard Shaw

6. I organized the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession in Washington before President Wilson's inauguration. In 1916, I founded the National Woman's Party.

a. Alice Paul

b. Josephine Anderson Pearson

c. Juno Frankie Pierce

7. I was an activist and educator in Tuskegee, Alabama. In 1912, I wrote in the NAACP magazine, "The Crisis," about the importance of universal suffrage.

a. Sojourner Truth

b. Adella Hunt Logan

c. Mariah Hunt

8. I was the plaintiff in a Supreme Court case. I argued that the 14th Amendment let women vote. I lost but helped pave the way for women's suffrage.

a. Virginia Minor

b. Jane Roe

c. Ruby Bridges

9. I escaped slavery and became a famous orator. I recited my well-known speech, "Ain't I a Woman?" at the Women's Rights Convention in Ohio in 1851.

a. Harriet Tubman

b. Ida B. Wells

c. Sojourner Truth

10. I was an activist and the first woman to petition Congress in person. In 1872, I was the first woman candidate to run for President of the United States.

a. Hillary Rodham Clinton

b. Victoria Woodhull

c. Shirley Chisholm

11. I co-founded the Chicago Political Equality League in 1894. I was the first woman elected Justice of the Peace in Illinois in 1907 and again in 1909.

a. Grace Wilbur Trout

b. Susan Gouger

c. Catharine Waugh McCulloch

12. I created the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago in 1913 to advocate for all women's right to vote and to help elect African Americans to public offices.

a. Ida B. Wells

b. Catherine Impey

c. Harriet Tubman

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