1. INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN HISTORY SS3H2, SS3H2.a, SS3H2.b

2. PAUL REVERE Independence

3. Why was Paul Revere important in history? What was he fighting for?

4. What social barriers, restrictions, and obstacles did she have to overcome? HOW did she overcome these?

5. Student created video clip – Boston Tea Party http://wonderopolis.org/wonder/who-came-to-the-boston-tea-party/

6. FREDERICK DOUGLASS Civil Rights

7. Why was Frederick Douglass important in history? What was he fighting for?

8. What social barriers, restrictions, and obstacles did she have to overcome? HOW did she overcome these?

9. 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.

10. Why was Mary Mcleod Bethune important in history? What was she fighting for? She was fighting for education for all people, especially girls.

11. 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

12. 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.

13. SUSAN B. ANTHONY Women’s Rights

14. Why was Susan B. Anthony important in history? What was she fighting for? Women’s Rights

15. What social barriers, restrictions, and obstacles did she have to overcome? HOW did she overcome these?

16. Describe how she displayed positive character traits of cooperation, diligence, courage, and leadership.

17. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT United Nations & Human Rights

18. Why was Eleanor Roosevelt important in history? What was she fighting for?

19. What social barriers, restrictions, and obstacles did she have to overcome? HOW did she overcome these?

20. Describe how she displayed positive character traits of cooperation, diligence, courage, and leadership.

21. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT New Deal & WWII

22. Why was Franklin D. Roosevelt important in history? What was he fighting for?

23. THURGOOD MARSHALL Civil Rights

24. Why was Thurgood Marshall important in history? What was he fighting for?

25. LYNDON B. JOHNSON Great Society & Voting Rights

26. Why was Lyndon B. Johnston important in history? What was he fighting for?

27. CESAR CHAVEZ Workers’ Rights

28. Why was Cesar Chavez important in history? What was he fighting for?

29. RESOURCES http://www.forsyth.k12.ga.us/Page/42822 http://www.biography.com/people/mary-mcleod-bethune-9211266#later-years- and-legacyhttp://www.biography.com/people/mary-mcleod-bethune-9211266#later-years- and-legacy