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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