Question

2. Jeannette Rankin was the first,

O president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union
O president of the American Equal Rights Association
O woman to be elected to the Senate
O woman to be elected to the House of Representatives

Answer 1

Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first American woman elected to represent her state in the U.S. House of Representatives.

1917

Women win the vote in New York State. A suffrage petition signed by more than a million women signals the determination of the women of the state (and the suffrage campaign workers who gathered the signatures) to gain the vote. Aiding the suffrage cause is a last-minute decision by Tammany Hall, the powerful Democratic "machine," not to oppose suffrage, given the danger alienating potential women voters might pose in future elections. The suffrage measure wins by a margin of 100,000 votes in New York City and breaks even in the rest of the state.