| A | B |
|---|
| celebrate | to honor a special day by doing something special |
| holiday | a special day |
| custom | a special way that a group of people does something |
| George Washington | the first President of the United States |
| Benjamin Franklin | a scientist and an inventor who helped write the constitution |
| Daniel Boone | an explorer who help start a town called Boonesboro |
| Sojourner Truth | a former slave who helped people who escaped from slavery find homes |
| Abraham Lincoln | the President of the United States during the Civil War |
| Clara Barton | a nurse in the Civil War who founded the American Red Cross |
| Chief Joseph | the leader of the Nez Perce Indians |
| Mary McLeod Bethune | a teacher who started a school for African American students |
| Martin Luter King, Jr. | a leader who worked for the rights of African Americans |
| Cesar Chavez | he worked to help farm workers get better pay |
| Maya Lin | she made the plans for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | the first women ever to serve as a judge on the Supreme Court of the United States |
