Back to exercise contents Back to exercise 16 Exercise 16-Shifts Possible Revisions 2. The first woman to run for president of the United States was Victoria Woodhull. She ran in 1872, but with her platform advocating free love, legalized prostitution, and women's rights, she never had a chance. 4. Critics have observed that the author Edith Wharton, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1920, grew up in a social environment that doesn't exist in today's New York. 6. Appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1981, Sandra Day O'Connor has been the decisive vote on several of the controversial cases brought before the court. 8. In 1879, Mary Baker Eddy founded the Christian Science movement, which believes in the power of the mind over the body and which has become a major religion. 10. Sojourner Truth combined her abolitionist and feminist beliefs at a women's rights convention in 1851 when she told the audience, "Nobody ever helps me into carriages or over puddles, or gives me the best place-and ain't I a woman?" Back to exercise 16 Back to exercise contents

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