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Meet key figures who improved communities through courage, fairness, invention, or helping others.
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Before Andrew Carnegie gave his money away, he ran a huge company that made which metal?

Roberto Clemente played on a neighborhood ball team as a boy. Where did he grow up?

Susan B. Anthony spent much of her life working toward one goal. What was she working to do?

Thomas Edison invented the light bulb in a big laboratory. Who worked in that laboratory with him?

Juliette Gordon Low needed money to keep her new group of girls going. What did she sell to pay for it?

Harriet Tubman secretly led people north on the Underground Railroad. What was she helping them reach?

Sacagawea traveled west with Lewis and Clark. What role did she play on their trip?

Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War. What did that paper say?

A person who works to protect nature and wildlife is called a what?

Helen Keller could not see or hear, but she finished college and worked for people with disabilities. What did she become?

In 1960, six-year-old Ruby Bridges walked into an all-white school in New Orleans. Why was this important?

Booker T. Washington was born into slavery and had no money for school. How did he pay to live at school?

In 1872 Susan B. Anthony broke the law on purpose to make a point about women's rights. What did she do?

Martin Luther King Jr. led marches asking for fair treatment for all people. What did he do in Washington, D.C., in 1963?

Cesar Chavez led long strikes and boycotts. Which workers was he trying to help?

Dorothea Dix was a doctor who treated sick people in a hospital.
Elizabeth Blackwell wrote to many schools asking to study there, and almost every one turned her away. Why did they say no?
Dolores Huerta helped Cesar Chavez start a union for farm workers.
Jackie Robinson broke a color barrier in 1947. Which sport did he play in the major leagues?

Who started a school in Alabama where Black students learned trades and how to teach?

Mary McLeod Bethune opened a Florida school with five students and almost no money. Who was it for?

Who opened a large house in Chicago where immigrant families got English classes, child care, and health care?

Andrew Carnegie gave away his money to build more than a thousand of what in American towns?

People had to pay money to borrow a book from the libraries Andrew Carnegie paid for.
Who planned Central Park, the big public park in the middle of New York City?

Louis Braille made a way for blind people to read using raised ___ that fingers can feel.
Louis Braille was blind himself when he made his dot reading system.
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet traveled to Europe to learn new ways of teaching. What did he then start in Connecticut?

Who sailed from France with Gallaudet and became the first deaf teacher of deaf students in America?
Juliette Gordon Low gathered eighteen girls in Savannah, Georgia. What did she teach them to do?

Milton Hershey earned a fortune selling chocolate. What did he build for boys who had lost their parents?

Dorothea Dix found people who were mentally ill locked in jails. What did she ask states to build?
Who taught Helen Keller by spelling words with her fingers into Helen's hand?

Anne Sullivan held Helen's hand under a water pump and spelled a word. What did Helen learn that day?

Roberto Clemente was a star baseball player. What was he doing when his plane went down?

Nellie Bly pretended to be ill so she could get inside a hospital and see how patients were treated. What was her job?

Nellie Bly traveled all the way around the world in fewer than eighty days.
Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman in the United States to earn a degree for which job?

John Chapman walked west across the frontier. What did he plant along the way?

John Chapman gave all of his apple trees away for free.
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