Famous Inventors
Name one invention or use for plants that George Washington Carver came up with.
Soap, ink, ways to make candy, crop rotation, paper, shaving cream, insulation, shoe polish, rope, etc.
True or False. Lincoln was the 2nd president.
False. He was the 16th president.
Name one of Helen's disabilities.
Deaf and blind.
Who spoke the famous words, "I have a dream..."
Martin Luther King Jr.
Forced separation.
This inventor was born as a slave.
George Washington Carver
Finish this sentence: Abraham Lincoln was born in a ______ ___________ on February 12, 1809.
log cabin
What was the first word Helen learned?
water
What did Rosa Parks refuse to do which led to her arrest and resulted in the bus boycott?
Give her seat up to a white person on the bus.
What is a disability?
A condition that limits you to a life activity.
Name two inventions/discoveries Ben Franklin came up with.
Examples: bifocals, Franklin stove, electricity in lightning, lightning rods, hospitals, fire stations...
What was the name of the war that Lincoln was president through?
The Civil War
What is the name of the raised writing which allows people who are blind to read?
Braille
What team did Jackie Robinson play for?
The Brooklyn Dodgers
What is a boycott?
When you refuse to use a service.
Which famous inventor is considered one of our "Founding Fathers"?
Benjamin Franklin
Honest Abe
How did Helen become deaf and blind?
She fell ill with "scarlet fever" when she was a year and a half old.
This leader became the first African American justice (judge) in the Supreme Court (the highest court in America.)
Thurgood Marshall
What is a strike?
When you refuse to work in demand of better working conditions.
What dollar bill is Benjamin Franklin on?
What job did Lincoln have before he was president?
A lawyer.
Helen has said that the day she met this person it became her "soul's birthday." Who is that person?
Anne Sullivan, her teacher.
This leader fought to better the working conditions for migrant workers.
Cesar Chavez.
What is a migrant worker?
Someone who moves around for work.