Women's History Month Questions

	Answer the questions about each of these influential women and turn them in by next Friday, March 30th. Rosa Parks How many days did the Montgomery bus boycott last? http://www.grandtimes.com/rosa.html
	Jackie Joyner-Kersee How many Olympic medals did she earn? http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00016055.html
	Sacajawea What famous team of explorers did she travel with? http://www.rootsweb.com/~nwa/sacajawea.html
	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
	Janet Reno and Madeleine Albright What jobs did these women hold during Bill Clinton's presidency? http://www.wic.org/bio/jreno.htm http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/biography/albright.html
	Betsy Ross Who asked her to make the first American flag? http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flagtale.html
	Harriet Tubman By what nickname did slaves call her? http://www.civilwarhome.com/tubmanbio.htm
	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
	Helen Keller What is the title of her autobiography? http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=91
	Ruth Bader Ginsburg Which president nominated her to the Supreme Court? http://www.supremecourthistory.org/justice/ginsburg.htm
	Amelia Earhart What was Earhart's role on her first transatlantic flight? http://www.ninety-nines.org/earhart.html
	Georgia O'Keeffe Which museum presented the first retrospective exhibit of work by a woman artist? http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/okee-geo.htm
	Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis What job did Jackie have before she married John F. Kennedy? http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/jk35.html
	Hillary Clinton To what official role did President Bill Clinton appoint her? http://www.wic.org/bio/hclinton.htm
	Equal Rights Amendment Who wrote the ERA, passed by the Senate in March 1972? http://www.now.org/issues/economic/cea/history.html
	Molly Pitcher What heroic acts did she perform during the Battle of Monmouth, in June 1778? http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/notable/pitcherm/
	Clara Barton Why wasn't she permitted to work with the International Red Cross? http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/bart-cla.htm
	Gloria Steinem Which two magazines did she help found? http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=150
	Sandra Day O'Connor What "first" did she accomplish in the Arizona Senate? http://www.loc.gov/rr/women/oconnor.html
	Eleanor Roosevelt What was the title of the newspaper column she wrote? http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eleanor/peopleevents/pande01.html