US History Famous Women

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Across
  1. 5. 1st female Vice President
  2. 6. escaped slavery with her newborn daughter, famous abolitionist
  3. 8. Cultural icon that represents women in WWII
  4. 9. helped Lewis & Clark explore the Louisiana Territory
  5. 10. Abolitionist that wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
  6. 12. Harlem Renaissance writer
  7. 14. First woman to run for US President
  8. 15. Suffragist activist that also created the Hull House
  9. 16. Legendary Native American princess
  10. 17. abolitionist sisters
  11. 18. drafted the Declaration of Sentiments(of womens rights) @ the Seneca Falls Convention
  12. 19. GA woman during the American Revolution that killed some British men
  13. 20. famous for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery(Civil Rights)
  14. 21. First woman to go to outerspace
  15. 22. Took pictures for the government during the Dust Bowl
Down
  1. 1. wrote the book Silent Spring(criticism of pesticides)
  2. 2. The 1st first lady
  3. 3. 1st female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
  4. 4. escaped slavery and ran the underground railroad
  5. 7. sewed the first US flag
  6. 11. fought for women's suffrage(also for temperance and the abolition of slavery)
  7. 13. famous jazz singer during the Harlem Renaissance
  8. 18. first lady that convinced her husband to help poor and women