| 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 |