A | B |
Mexican American | Chavez family heritage |
Homestead Act | allowed people to live on the land and own it |
Arizona | the site of the Chavez ranch |
The Great Depression | the time when the family lost the ranch |
California | the state to which they moved to find work |
Vineyard | the place where grapes grow |
Crochet | handwork done by Cesar's mother |
Hard working | a characteristic of the Chavez family |
Tinfoil | what the brothers made into a ball and sold |
In the Navy | Chavez's service during the war |
Helen | Cesar's wife |
Eight | the number of children of Chavez and his wife |
Gandhi | Cesar was influenced by this man's writings. |
Delano | the site of the grape strike |
Five years | the length of the grape strike |
Eagle | the bird on the flag of the UFW |
Fast | to go without eating for a time |
Pesticide | made the workers sick in the fields |
More than 30,000 | the number of people who attended his funeral |
Stamp | made by the U.S. Post Office to honor Chavez |