Name _________________
Date:______________
Women of Accomplishment: An Internet Scavenger Hunt
(adapted from www.educationworld.com)
Directions: Neglected for years, the historical contributions of women are
celebrated during March, the official National Women’s History Month.
What contributions have these notable women made to many? Search the
given sight to answer each question. Read carefully!!
1. Madam C.J. Walker
https://webfiles.uci.edu/mcbrown/display/walker.ht
ml
How did she become the first female African American millionaire?
2, Rosa Parks
http://www.grandtimes.com/rosa.html
How many days did the Montgomery bus boycott last?
3. Sacajawea
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nwa/sacajawea.html
What famous team of explorers did she travel with?
4. Sally Ride
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_leve
l2/ride.html
What sport did this famous astronaut play as a young woman?
5. Helen Keller
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=9
1
What is the title of her autobiography?
6. Harriet Tubman
http://www.civilwarhome.com/tubmanbio.htm
By what nickname did slaves call her?
7. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
http://www.supremecourthistory.org/justice/ginsburg.htm
Which President nominated her to the Supreme Court?
8. Betsy Ross
http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flagtale.html
Who asked her to make the first American Flag?
9. Jackie Joyner Kersee
http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00016055.html
How many Olympic medals did she earn?
10. Molly Pitcher
http://sill-www.army.mil/pao/pamolly.htm
What heroic act did she perform during the Battle of Monmouth, in June
1778?
11. Georgia O’Keeffe
http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/okee-geo.htm
Which museum presented the first retrospective exhibit of work by a
woman artist?
Which woman do you find the most fascinating and why? (On back...5
sentence min,)