1. Which major party candidate for President was called the "woman's
candidate"?
A. Herbert Hoover
B. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
C. John F. Kennedy
D. Bill Clinton
2. Who was "the General" of Democratic women?
A. Florence J. "Daisy" Harriman?
B. Emily Newell Blair
C. Molly Dewson
D. India Edwards
3. Who was her competition for leader of Democratic Women?
A. Elizabeth Bass
B. Marion Glass Bannister
C. Emma Guffey Miller
D. Katie Louchheim
4. Which national women's organization was the first to endorse
a major party candidate for President?
A. National American Woman Suffrage Association
B. The National Woman's Party
C. The General Federation of Business and Professional Women
D. The National Organization for Women
5. Who was the first woman to be nominated for Vice President at
a major party convention?
A. Mrs. Leroy Springs, Democratic convention 1924
B. Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, Republican convention 1952
C. Cong. Clare Booth Luce, Republican convention 1952
D. India Edwards, Democratic convention 1952.
6. Who was the first woman to second the nomination of a major party
candidate at a national party convention?
A. Mrs. Elizabeth Cohen, Democratic convention, 1900.
B. Jane Addams, Progressive party convention, 1912.
C. Mrs. Leonard Wood, Republican convention, 1920
D. Elizabeth Guffey Miller, Democratic convention, 1924
7. Who was the most important woman in the Republican party in the
Nineteenth Century?
A. Anna Dickinson
B. Mary Lease
C. Frances Willard
D. Judith Ellen Foster
8. Which election was called "the petticoat campaign"
because of the unprecedented numbers of women active in it?
A. 1900
B. 1912
C. 1920
D. 1928
9. Who was the first woman to chair a Democratic state central committee?
A. Gertrude Lee, Colorado State Democratic Party, 1914.
B. Mary Norton, New Jersey State Democratic Party, 1932.
C. Elizabeth Snyder, California State Democratic Party, 1954.
D. Koryne Horbal, Minnesota Democratic Farmer/Labor Party, 1968
10. Who was the first woman to be a Vice Chairman of the Republican
National Committee?
A. Harriet Taylor Upton
B. Mrs. Leonard Wood.
C. Sallie Hert
D. Marion Martin
11. Which major party candidate for President was the first to declare
his support for woman suffrage?
A. William Jennings Bryan, 1900
B. Theodore Roosevelt, 1912
C. Charles Evans Hughes, 1916
D. Woodrow Wilson, 1916.
12. Which major party candidate for President was the first to declare
his support for the Equal Rights Amendment?
A. Herbert Hoover, 1928
B. Thomas Dewey, 1948
C. Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956
D. John F. Kennedy, 1960
13. In which year did the national platforms of both the Democratic
and Republican Parties support the ERA?
A. 1928
B. 1940
C. 1944
D. 1968
14. The first national organization of Republican women was founded
in which year?
A. 1872
B. 1888
C. 1912
D. 1920
15. What was the name of this organization?
A. National Federation of Women's Republican Clubs
B. Women's National Republican Club
C. National Federation of Republican Women
D. Women's National Republican Association
16. The first national organization of Democratic women was founded
in which year?
A. 1872
B. 1888
C. 1912
D. 1920
17. What was the name of this organization?
A. Women's National Democratic League
B. Women's National Democratic Club
C. National Federation of Democratic Women
D. Women Democrats of America
18. Which state first proposed the idea that women should be equally
represented on party committees with men?
A. Wyoming
B. California
C. New York
D. Colorado
19. Which year did both major parties first authorize equal representation
of men and women on their national committees?
A. 1912
B. 1920
C. 1924
D. 1936
20. Democratic Women's Day is on___________
A. August 26
B. September 27
C. February 15
D. March 8
21. What was the paramount "women's issue" in the election
of 1928?
A. The Equal Rights Amendment
B. The Prohibition Amendment
C. The Child Labor Amendment
D. The Cable Acts on women's citizenship
22. Which state(s) were the first to put black women on a national
party committee?
A. Georgia and Mississippi, RNC, 1924
B. Alabama and South Carolina, RNC, 1928
C. Tennessee, DNC 1936
D. Michigan, DNC 1960
23. Who was the first woman to have her name placed into nomination
for President at the conventions of the Democratic or Republican
parties?
A. Florence Allen by the Democrats in 1936
B. Margaret Chase Smith by the Republicans in 1964
C. Shirley Chisholm by the Democrats in 1972
D. Margaret Heckler by the Republicans in 1972
24. Susan B. Anthony, Jane Addams and Alice Paul were all members
of the______
A. Women's Christian Temperance Union
B. Daughters of the American Revolution
C. General Federation of Women's Clubs
D. Women's Joint Congressional Committee
25. In 1922, Secretary of War John D. Weeks denounced which organization
as hysteric?
A. The Young Women's Christian Association.
B. The Parent-Teacher's Association.
C. The Women's Christian Temperance Union.
D. All of the above.
26. Which Republican Woman appeared on the cover of TIME magazine
for declaring her support for a Democratic candidate for President?
A. Ruth Hanna McCormick
B. Margaret Dreier Robbins
C. Pauline Morton Sabine
D. Mary McLeod Bethune
27. The National Association of Colored Women became practically
an arm of which Presidential campaign?
A - Theodore Roosevelt, 1912
B - Charles Evans Hughes, 1916
C - Calvin Coolidge, 1924
D - Herbert Hoover, 1928
28. Who was the first woman to serve in the United States Senate?
A - Rebecca Latimer Felton (GA), 1922
B - Cornelia Bryce Pinchot (PA), 1925
C - Ruth Hanna McCormick (IL), 1928
D - Hattie Caraway (AR), 1931