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1. Who was known as the 'Angel of the Battlefield' because of her work as a nurse during the Civil War?
2. What year did American women gain the right to vote?
3. Where and when was the first Women's Rights Convention held in the United States?
4. Who was the first woman to graduate from medical school in the United States?
5. Some 19th-century doctors thought that education was hazardous to women's health.
6. This 19th-century feminist designed a new style of clothing for women. The style never became popular, but her name entered the American language as a term for a specific type of garment.
7. In the 1920s, young women scandalized their elders by shortening their skirts, bobbing their hair, wearing make-up, and dancing the Charleston with men whom they hardly knew. What were these young women called?
8. Which 1920s movie star was known as the 'It' girl?
9. Who made her fortune by developing a successful line of cosmetics for African American women in the early 1900s?
10. Who was the first woman to be the vice-presidential nominee of a major political party?
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