Women's History Month

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