| A | B |
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| Women's Suffrage | Voting rights for women. |
| The 19th Amendment | Ratified in 1920, gave women the right to vote. |
| Betty Friedan | American writer, activist & feminist Leading figure in “2nd wave” of U.S. Women’s rights movement. |
| Rachel Carson | Marine Biologist 7 conservationist that championed the banning of DDT. (Pesticide used on plants). |
| Alice Paul | American Suffragist leader 1917 suffrage movement (women’s rights movement). |
| Cesar Chavez | The civil rights & labor leader who founded the United Farm Workers. |
| A. I.M. | American Indians Movement |
| N.O.W. | National Organization of Women |
| Feminist | Women who want equal rights “equal pay for equal work.” |
| Seneca Falls Convention | 1848. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott wrote up the Declaration of Sentiments in which they stated that men and women were created equal and that it was women's duty to secure the right to vote for themselves. |
| The Feminine Mystique | A non-fiction book that details how women in the 1950s and 1960s were unhappy just being house wives and mothers. This book began the Women's Rights Movement. |
| Betty Friedan | The founder of N.O.W., an author and political activist during the feminist movement. |
| Gloria Steinem | a. Feminist, writer, political activist for the feminist movement during the 1960s and 1970s. She is generally accepted as the media spokeswoman for the Women’s Liberation Movement. |
| Title IX | a. An Act that went along with the Education Amendments of 1972 which stated that no one could be denied the benefits of any activity receiving federal funds based on gender. |
