March is Women's History Month!

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  1. 2. her refusal to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, indirectly led to some of the most significant civil rights legislation of American history
  2. 3. American feminist, journalist, and social and political activist, co-founder of Ms. magazine, columnist for New York magazine
  3. 5. the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
  4. 7. an American abolitionist, humanitarian, and an armed scout and spy for the United States Army; had a nickname of "Moses"
  5. 10. first country to have a female president
  6. 14. credited with making the first American flag
  7. 15. first female prime minister of India
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  1. 1. the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize and the first person to win the Nobel Prize for two separate categories
  2. 4. Clara Barton founded the _____
  3. 6. Women's History Month was proclaimed in _____ in 1992
  4. 8. American jazz singer; given the title “First Lady of the Blues”
  5. 9. the right to vote in political elections
  6. 11. In 1978, _____ was the first state to recognize Women's History Week
  7. 12. newspaper column written by Eleanor Roosevelt
  8. 13. first woman astronaut in space
  9. 16. Susan B. _____ was an American social reformer and women's rights activist born in Massachusetts