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| government | people who run a community, state, or country |
| mayor | the leader of a community who makes sure that people who live there follow its laws |
| governor | The leader of a state. |
| election | The special time when we vote. |
| court | They give help to people who cannot agree about the law. |
| monuments | A building or statue that shows special respect for a person or an event. |
| Capital | It is the name of a building in Washington, D.C. where people who work for Congress meet. |
| White House | Where the President lives and works. |
| grid map | A map divided by lines. The lines form squares. A letter and a number name each square. |
| main idea | The sentence that tells what a paragraph is about. |
| hero | A person who does something brave or great. |
| American flag | It is a symbol of our country. Our flag has 13 stripes. Each stripe stands for one of the first 13 states. Our flag also has 50 stars. The stars stand for our country's 50 states. |
| Susan B. Anthony | She worked hard to change the law so that women could vote. |
| Chief Joseph | A leader of the Nez Perce (Native Americans who lived in Oregon). |
| Rosa Parks | She helped change the law that said only white people could sit in the front of a bus by refusing, one day, to give up her seat to a white man. |
| John Glenn | The first American astronaut to go around Earth in a spaceship. |
| Cesar Chavez | He worked to make life better for farm workers. |
