Women's History Month

Click the picture link below to learn about many famous women.

Answer the questions below. You will find the answers on the Honor Roll website.

Name:                      Class:

1. She was born in the 1800's. She was the first person to write books especially for young women. She wrote over 270 books. Her most famous work was Little Women.

2. She was the first American woman in space.

3. This woman worked to protect consumers. Because of her efforts, working women have a legal right to equal pay, and food labels by law must now list exact amounts of ingredients and the nutritional content.

4. This athlete was the first American woman to win Olympic gold in the long jump.

5. Founder of a religious group of nuns in Calcutta, India, this woman devoted her life to aiding sick and poor people throughout the world.

6. As a champion of human rights, she strove to further women’s causes as well as the causes of black people, poor people, and the unemployed. Being a first lady, the  wife of a president of the United States, helped her to be able to make  such great strides.

 7. I was a Mexican artist who started painting to escape the pain of polio. I was considered to be one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.

8. I invented one of the first easy-to-use computer languages that really helped with computer programming.

9. I was the democratic leader of India.  Because I was a woman and the leader of the largest democracy in the world, I was an important influence for all women.

10. It is hard to believe that women were not allowed to vote until the 19th Amendment was passed in 1920! But this woman, along with other famous women such as Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, worked hard for women's suffrage.

Who am I?
 Names to choose from: 
Eleanor Roosevelt, Sally Ride, Louisa May Alcott, Mother Theresa, Grace Hopper, 
Indira Ghandi, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Frida Kahlo, Esther Peterson, Susan B. Anthony

I was a famous first lady, the wife of a president of the United States. I worked hard for human rights for all people.
I set an Olympic world record!
I'm flying, I'm flying...Look at me, way up high......
I invented an easy-to-use computer programming language.
I don't want to sound too proud, but I was considered to be one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. I started painting to distract myself from the pain of polio and many operations in my childhood.
I was the democratic leader of India.
You may have read my book, Little Women, but I wrote many other books for young women. I devoted my life to helping sick and poor people worldwide, and especially in India.
  Ladies....It is because of me that you have equal pay to men. I also got laws passed that make companies put ingredient labels on the food they sell.
 

I worked hard to get women the right to vote.