| A | B |
|---|
| first President of the US | George Washington |
| George Washington | Father of our Country |
| Believed to have sewn the first flag of our country | Betsy Ross |
| US President known as Honest Abe | Abraham Lincoln |
| American Indian girl who was a helper and friend to Jamestown settlers | Pocahontas |
| Day in January to remember an African American who worked so all people would be treated fairly | Martin Luther King, Jr. Day |
| Day in February to honor the top leaders of the US government | Presidents' Day |
| proved that electricity was present in lightning through his kite experiment | Benjamin Franklin |
| African American who studies science and plants and developed uses for peanuts | George Washington Carver |
| Abraham Lincoln | President who helped free African American slaves |
| Led the struggle to give women the right to vote | Susan B. Anthony |
| African American minister who worked so that all people would be treated fairly | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| African American women who refuse to give up her seat on a public bus | Rosa Parks |
| Rosa Parks | became a leader by taking a stuand against segregation on a bus and helped create equal rights for all |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | Became a leader and helped create equal rights for all people |
| Thomas Jefferson | wrote the Declaration of Independence and was born in VA |
| First African American Justice of the US Supreme Court | Thurgood Marshall |
| Overcame disabilities and worked to help others who were deaf and/or blind | Helen Keller |
| First African American player in the major leagues of baseball | Jackie Robinson |
| Susan B. Anthony | Worked for women's rights (suffrage) |
