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2. Women’s History

Matching Game About Notable UU Women

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  1. _____   Abigail Adams
     
  2. _____   Louisa Alcott
     
  3. _____   Susan B. Anthony
     
  4. _____   Clara Barton
     
  5. _____   Elizabeth Blackwell
     
  6. _____   Olympia Brown
     
  7. _____   Lydia Marie Child
     
  8. _____   Dorothea Dix
     
  9. _____   Fannie Merritt Farmer
     
  10. _____   Margaret Fuller
     
  11. _____   Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
     
  12. _____   Julia Ward Howe
     
  13. _____   Mary A. Rice Livermore
     
  14. _____   Maria Mitchell
     
  15. _____   Judith Sargent Murray
     
  16. _____   Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
     
  17. _____   Lydia E. Pinkham
     
  18. _____   Beatrice Potter
     
  19. _____   May Sarton
     
  20. _____   Lucy Stone
     
  21. _____   Mary Wollstonecraft
     
  1. Asked to write Oberlin’s graduation speech, she refused because a man was going to give it.
     
  2. Poet, novelist and playwright, she published her first book of poems at 17.
     
  3. Businesswoman whose tonic was said to relieve a painful menstrual cycle.
     
  4. Wrote the tale of Peter Rabbit.
     
  5. She stressed early childhood education and kindergarten.
     
  6. Said “… if they (women) were educated in a more orderly manner, which might save many from common and legal prostitution … .”
     
  7. Discovered a new comet.
     
  8. Brought us the book character “Jo,” who was an independent and energetic girl.
     
  9. “Do not put such unlimited power in the hands of husbands.”
     
  10. Friend of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
     
  11. Nurse during the Civil War and founded the Red Cross
     
  12. Wrote “Over the River, Through the Woods.”
     
  13. Popular poet of her time who published while a teen despite quitting school at age thirteen.
     
  14. Wrote “Battle Hymn of the Republic.”
     
  15. Disregarded a ban against females speaking in public and gave a weekly series of seminars.
     
  16. Advocate for the mentally ill.
     
  17. Abolitionist who co- chaired the Civil War Army’s Sanitation Commission.
     
  18. Argued that the female mind was not deficient.
     
  19. Pioneer of dietetics and health and “mother of the level measurement.”
     
  20. First female physician in the U.S.
     
  21. First female ordained minister in the U.S.