1. Famous Americans
Third Grade

2. Best known for: being a patriot in the American Revolution.
Paul Revere
Best known for:
being a patriot in the American Revolution.
He is most famous for his midnight ride warning the colonists that the British soldiers were coming.

3. Character Traits: Revere valued liberty, (or freedom).
He worked diligently for America’s independence from British rule.
Paul Revere

4. Frederick Douglass
Best known for:
being a slave who escaped, became an abolitionist, a writer and adviser to Presidents.

5. Frederick Douglass
Character Traits:
Douglass demanded equal treatment when he spoke out against unfair laws. This showed freedom of conscience and expression.

6. fighting for suffrage, or the right of women to vote.
Susan B. Anthony
Best known for:
fighting for suffrage, or the right of women to vote.

7. Susan B. Anthony
Character Traits:
Susan B. Anthony showed diligence when she worked hard for many years to help end slavery and to win the right to vote for women.

8. Best known for: being a great educator.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Best known for:
being a great educator.
She was a leader of women, a distinguished adviser to several American presidents, and a powerful champion of racial equality.

9. Mary McLeod Bethune
Character Traits:
Mary McLeod Bethune showed respect for and acceptance of authority as she worked with Presidents Coolidge, Hoover and Roosevelt.

10. 1882 - 1945 Best known for: being elected President a record 4 times.
leading the U.S. through the Great Depression and World War II
the New Deal
starting programs to give people jobs and hope. Some exist today, such as social security and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Franklin d. roosevelt

11. Franklin d. roosevelt
Character Traits:
FDR stood for liberty as he led the U.S. in a war against dictators who took away freedom.
FDR showed diligence as he spent years trying to regain his strength after he lost the ability to use his legs.

12. being an active first lady who worked for human rights.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Best known for:
being an active first lady who worked for human rights.
She helped start the peacekeeping organization called the United Nations (UN).

13. Eleanor Roosevelt
Character Traits:
Eleanor Roosevelt cooperated with Franklin Roosevelt on many projects
Eleanor Roosevelt showed tolerance when she worked for an agreement on the Declaration of Human Rights.

14. Best known for: fighting for civil rights of migrant farm workers.
Cesar chavez
Best known for:
fighting for civil rights of migrant farm workers.
He founded a union, the National Farm Workers Association.

15. Cesar chavez
Character Traits:
Cesar Chavez led farm workers in their fight for justice, meaning they received equal treatment under the law.

16. becoming the first African-American Supreme Court Justice.
Thurgood marshall
Best known for:
becoming the first African-American Supreme Court Justice.
Known as “Mr. Civil Rights”
1908 – 1993

17. Thurgood marshall
Character Traits:
Marshall worked for justice for African Americans by working to end the unfair policy of “separate but equal”
1908 – 1993

18. Lyndon b. Johnson
Best known for:
becoming president after President Kennedy was assassinated.
His presidency is known for the passage of civil rights legislation and for fighting a war on poverty.

19. Lyndon b. Johnson
Character Traits:
LBJ showed tolerance, or respect for the values and beliefs of others, by working to end poverty and racial injustice.