Study Guide: FAMOUS AMERICANS



Study Guide: FAMOUS AMERICANS

Sol 2.11

Students will need to know the following information for the test. Please help them study.

Thank you, The Second Grade Teachers

Jackie Robinson

• First African American player in the major leagues of baseball

• Played baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers

• Broke the color barrier in major league baseball in 1947

Helen Keller

• Was born in Alabama

• Lost her sight and hearing after a serious illness at the age of two

• Alexander Graham Bell (inventor of the telephone) advised her parents to ask Anne Sullivan to be her teacher

• Anne Sullivan was her teacher.

• Learned to use Braille and Sign Language

• Learned about speech by touching people’s throats/mouth and feeling the vibrations

• Worked to help other blind and deaf people

Martin Luther King Jr.

• Was born in Georgia

• Was an African American minister

• Had a wife named Coretta Scott

• Believed in nonviolent protest against laws that were unjust

• Led peaceful marches and gave speeches (one speech was given on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial)

• “I have a dream…”

• Won the Nobel Peace Prize

Susan B. Anthony

• Led the struggle to give women equal rights, including the right to vote

• Voted and was arrested for voting illegally

• Was a school teacher and was called a “Suffragette”

• Worked for women’s suffrage (suffrage means: the right to vote)

George Washington

• First President of the United States

• Led the fight for freedom against England

• Commander and Chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolution

• Face is on the one dollar bill AND the quarter

• Born in Virginia and died in Virginia

Abraham Lincoln

• Was born in a log cabin in Kentucky

• Sixteenth President of the United States

• Helped to free African American slaves

• Face is on the five dollar bill AND penny

• Known for the Emancipation Proclamation

• Was assassinated in the Ford Theater

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Helen Keller

Jackie Robinson

Abraham Lincoln

George

Washington

Susan B Anthony

Martin Luther King Jr

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