Women's History Month
Across
- 2. he first published African-American female poet
- 7. a Lemhi Shoshone woman who helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition achieve each of its chartered mission objectives exploring the Louisiana Purchase
- 10. the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree.
- 11. was an African-American nurse and a Californian real estate entrepreneur and philanthropist.
- 12. B. First women in English North American Colonies to appear before a Court of the common law.
- 14. was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral.
- 15. the first woman to hold national office in the United States.
- 16. the author of the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb".
- 18. known as the "mother" of Social Work
Down
- 1. the wife of James Madison
- 3. one of the leading voices of the abolitionist and feminist movements of her time. Raised in a Quaker community, she became a member of the society's ministry and adopted its anti-slavery views.
- 4. was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826.
- 5. M. She facilitated in the development of Colonial Georgia and became an important intermediary between Muscogee Creek Indians and the English colonists.
- 6. cut her hair and wore the bloomer costume for a year before ridicule convinced her that this radical dress detracted from the other causes she supported.:
- 8. was an early leader of the woman's rights movement, writing the Declaration of Sentiments as a call to arms for female equality
- 9. created the first generation of American mental asylums
- 13. She is the Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, previously serving as Vice Chair from 2010 to 2014
- 17. A puritan spiritual adviser