American Heroes

Unit Review Sheet

Facts and Definitions

Lesson 1: Heroes

• There are many people who have stood out as heroes in the history of America.

Lesson 2: Early American Heroes

• George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin are some of the men we call America's "Founding Fathers."

Lesson 3: Heroes of Freedom

• The main cause of the Civil War was slavery.
• Abraham Lincoln was the president that outlawed slavery.
• Harriet Tubman helped runaway slaves escape to freedom.

Lesson 4: Hard Times

• Franklin Roosevelt was the president during World War II.
• Eleanor Roosevelt was the wife of Franklin Roosevelt.
• A contraction is a word formed by combining two words and using an apostrophe in place of letters.

Lesson 5: Recent Heroes

• Adjectives describe nouns.

Lesson 6: African-American Heroes

• George Washington Carver was an African-American agricultural scientist, inventor, and teacher who studied peanut farming.
• Frederick Douglass was an author and speaker who lectured on the brutality and immorality of slavery.
• Mary McLeod Bethune was an educator who opened a school for African-American girls in 1904. The school eventually grew into a college.

Lesson 7: Female Heroes

• In the past women were not allowed to vote or hold political offices.
• The three sentence types are declarative, exclamatory, and interrogative.

Lesson 8: Heroes of Science and Invention

• An adverb describes how, where, when, or to what extent something is done.
• Perseverance means continuing to try and to keep going even when it gets hard.

Lesson 9: Book of Heroes

• A Venn diagram can compare three things.

Final Project: My Life Story

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