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