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| President's Day | a day to honor U.S. Presidents |
| Pledge of Allegiance | way of showing respect for the American flag |
| Veteran's Day | a day that honors US war veterans |
| Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand | the Spanish king and queen that paid for Columbus's voyage to North America |
| George Washington | the first president of the United States |
| Thomas Jefferson | the third president of the United States and the author of the Declaration of Independence |
| Benjamin Franklin | a printer, writer, and inventor who experimented with electricity |
| Harriet Tubman | a former slave who helped hundreds of slaves escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad |
| Christopher Newport | an English explorer who transported colonists and supplies to Jamestown in 1607 |
| Francis Scott Key | wrote the words to the Star Spangled Banner, our national anthem |
| Independence Day | July 4th holiday to celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence |
| Abraham Lincoln | the 16th president of the United States during the Civil War |
| George Washington Carver | scientist that experimented with peanuts and other crops |
| Thurgood Marshall | first African American to be appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | leader equal rights for African Americans |
| Memorial Day | day to honor Americans who died for their country |
| Rosa Parks | African American woman who fought to gain equal rights for African Americans |
| Betsy Ross | made the first American flag with stars and stripes |
| Juan Ponce de Leon | Spanish explorer that found the first European colony in Floridalorida |
| Jacques Cartier | French explorer that was looking for a route to the Far East through North America |
| John Chapman | called Johnny Appleseed because the planted apple trees through the USA |
| Christopher Columbus | Spanish explorer that sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to North America |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. Day | holiday to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| Pocahontas | daughter of Chief Powhatan |
| Thanksgiving Day | November holiday when people give thanks |
| Columbus Day | October holiday to celebrate Christopher Columbus' trip from Spain to North America in 1492 |
| Susan B. Anthony | worked for women's rights in the United States, including the right to vote |
| Davy Crockett | frontiersmen, hunter and soldier |
| Helen Keller | overcame her disability to work for many causes |
| Pocohantas | daughter of Chief Powhatan |
| Jackie Robinson | first African American to play in a baseball major leagues |
| Helen Keller | helped people with disabilities even though she was deaf and blind |
