Question
The only firm record of a woman voting in this modern-day state in the 18th century was Lydia Chapin Taft, the widow of Uxbridge’s largest taxpayer. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this state, the birthplace of a woman who advised her husband to “remember the ladies.”
ANSWER: Massachusetts [or MA] (The woman was Abigail Adams.)
[10h] Unmarried women in this state who owned property were allowed to vote until a campaign against “petticoat electors” removed that right in 1807. This state’s first female governor was Christine Todd Whitman.
ANSWER: New Jersey [accept NJ; prompt on Jersey]
[10e] Centuries before the Nineteenth Amendment, women helped choose the chiefs who represented local tribes at the council of this Native American confederacy. The Oneida and Mohawk were members of this confederacy.
ANSWER: Iroquois Confederacy [or Haudenosaunee Confederacy; or Five Nations or Six Nations]
<Michael Bentley, History - American - Pre-1865> ~20806~ <Editor: Michael Bentley>
Summary
| 2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 29 | 19.31 | 100% | 72% | 21% |
Data
| Thomas Jefferson B | Barrington A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Thomas Jefferson C | Barrington B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Lake Highland | Belvidere | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Dallas County | Canyon Crest | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Carl Sandburg | Carbondale | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Mexico | Chattahoochee B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Detroit Catholic Central B | Moberly | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Detroit Country Day | Richard Montgomery | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Dunbar | Hunter A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| New Brighton | Heights | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Irvington A | Hinsdale Central | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Northmont B | John Adams B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Belmont | Johns Creek A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Johns Creek B | Lincoln-Way East | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Maggie Walker C | Midtown | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Winnebago | Northmont A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Plymouth | Mira Loma | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Rockford Auburn A | Woodland | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Maggie Walker A | St. Mark's | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Parkway West | Stevenson A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Stevenson B | West Point | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Thomas Jefferson A | Detroit Catholic Central A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Chattahoochee A | Thomas Jefferson D | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Troy | William Fremd | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Solon | University Lab | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Walter Payton | Choate Rosemary Hall | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Detroit Catholic Central C | Waukee | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Kinkaid | Winston Churchill A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Innovation Academy A | Winston Churchill B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |