Who was the First Woman... Quiz

We've come a long way - thanks to women such as these who were the first to do something. Some are easy, some are very difficult. How many do you know?

Who was the ...

1. 1st First Lady of the US?
2. 1st woman to hold the title of newspaper editor?
3. First woman Secretary of State (and highest ranking woman in the U.S. government)
4. First woman whose invention received a patent (for cleaning and curing corn) - it was granted to her husband
5. First woman postmaster
6. First person to be a U.S. flagmaker
7. First woman to become a professional writer
8. First woman Marine
9. First woman to receive a medical degree
10. Publisher/editor of first prominent women's rights newspaper
11. First woman to run Underground Railroad to help slaves escape
12. First woman to graduate from dental school
13. Co-Founder of first US woman's suffrage organization
14. First woman admitted to the Bar
15. First woman to become a college president (Evanston College)
16. First woman presidential candidate
17. First woman to receive a Ph.D. degree (Boston University)
18. First woman to practice law before U.S. Supreme Court
19. First woman to run (founder)the American Red Cross
20. Co-Founder of Salvation Army and Volunteers of America
21. First woman mayor (Argonia, Kansas)
22. First woman to establish secondary school that became 4-year accredited college
23. First woman to fly an airplane
24. First woman U.S. House Representative (Montana)

1. Martha Washington in 1789
2. Ann Franklin - 1762 - "The Newport Mercury" in Newport, RI
3. Madeleine K. Albright
4. Ann Teresa Mathews in 1715
5. Mary Katherine Goddard in 1775
6. Betsy Ross in 1776/77
7. Hannah Adams in 1784
8. Lucy Brewer in 1812
9. Elizabeth Blackwell in 1849
10. Amelia Jenks Bloomer in 1849
11. Harriet Tubman in 1850
12. Lucy Hobbs in 1866
13. Susan B. Anthony in 1869
14. Arabella Mansfield Babb in 1869
15. Frances Elizabeth Willard in 1871
16. Victoria Chaflin Woodhull in 1872
17. Helen Magill in 1877
18. Belva Ann Lockwood in 1879
19. Clara Barton in 1881
20. Maud Booth in 1887 and 1896
21. Suzanna Madora Salter in 1887
22. Mary McLeod Bethune in 1904
23. Blanche Scott in 1910
24. Jeannette Rankin in 1916