influential people in history ss3h2, ss3h2.a, ss3h2.b
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Why was Paul Revere important in history? What was he fighting for?TRANSCRIPT
INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN HISTORY SS3H2, SS3H2.a,
SS3H2.b
PAUL REVERE Independence
Why was Paul Revere important in history?What was he fighting for?
What social barriers, restrictions, and obstacles did she have to overcome?
HOW did she overcome these?
Student created video clip – Boston Tea Party http://wonderopolis.org/wonder/who-came-to-the-boston-tea-party/
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Civil Rights
Why was Frederick Douglass important in history?
What was he fighting for?
What social barriers, restrictions, and obstacles did she have to overcome?
HOW did she overcome these?
MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE Education
I leave you a thirst for education. Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.
If I have a legacy to leave my people, it is my philosophy of living and serving.
Why was Mary Mcleod Bethune important in history?
What was she fighting for?
She was fighting for education for all people, especially girls.
What social barriers, restrictions, and obstacles did she have to overcome?
HOW did she overcome these?
• Denied the right to go on a mission trip to educate others, so she opened her own school so no girl could be denied an education.
• Needed desks & workers to build her school, so she begged for help and built desks from trash.
• Student denied proper health care, so she opened a hospital
Describe how she displayed positive character traits of cooperation, diligence, courage, and leadership.
• Led the National Association of Colored Women’s Club
• Founded the National Council of Negro Women• The first African American head of a federal
agency• Inducted in The National Women’s Hall of
Fame• The first woman and first African American to
be recognized with a statue in Washington D.C.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY Women’s Rights
Why was Susan B. Anthony important in history?
What was she fighting for?
Women’s Rights
What social barriers, restrictions, and obstacles did she have to overcome?
HOW did she overcome these?
Describe how she displayed positive character traits of cooperation, diligence, courage, and leadership.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT United Nations & Human Rights
Why was Eleanor Roosevelt important in history?
What was she fighting for?
What social barriers, restrictions, and obstacles did she have to overcome?
HOW did she overcome these?
Describe how she displayed positive character traits of cooperation, diligence, courage, and leadership.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
New Deal & WWII
Why was Franklin D. Roosevelt important in history?
What was he fighting for?
THURGOOD MARSHALL Civil Rights
Why was Thurgood Marshall important in history?
What was he fighting for?
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Great Society & Voting Rights
Why was Lyndon B. Johnston important in history?
What was he fighting for?
CESAR CHAVEZ Workers’ Rights
Why was Cesar Chavez important in history?What was he fighting for?
RESOURCES http://www.forsyth.k12.ga.us/Page/42822 http://www.biography.com/people/mary-mcleod-bethune-9211266#later-years-and-legacy