Who is the greatest woman in American history?

Reformers, writers, scientists and pilots, judged on what changed after them. Rank the American women whose work outlasted their lifetimes.

1. 1
   Harriet Tubman

   Escaped slavery, then returned repeatedly to lead others out, and scouted for the Union Army.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Rosa Parks

   Refused to move on a Montgomery bus in 1955 and set off a boycott that ran for 381 days.
   751pts
3. 3
   Amelia Earhart

   Flew the Atlantic alone in 1932 and made aviation look like something a woman could simply decide to do.
   678pts
4. 4
   Ruth Bader Ginsburg

   Argued the cases that made sex discrimination unconstitutional before she sat on the Supreme Court.
   469pts
5. 5
   Rachel Carson

   Silent Spring, published in 1962, started the modern environmental movement.
   407pts
6. 6
   Sojourner Truth

   Sued successfully for her son's freedom in 1828 and spoke for abolition and suffrage for four decades.
   335pts
7. 7
   Clara Barton

   Nursed the wounded at Antietam and founded the American Red Cross in 1881.
   335pts
8. 8
   Katherine Johnson

   Calculated the trajectories that put Americans in orbit and checked the computer's work on Friendship 7.
   253pts
9. 9
   Eleanor Roosevelt

   Redefined what a first lady does, then chaired the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
   253pts
10. 10
    Helen Keller

    Deaf and blind from infancy, she graduated from Radcliffe and campaigned for disability rights for sixty years.
    253pts
11. 11
    Susan B. Anthony

    Spent fifty years arguing for women's suffrage and was tried for voting in 1872.
    156pts
12. 12
    Jane Addams

    Founded Hull House in Chicago and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.
    43pts