March is Women's History Month!

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