American Heroes
Unit Review Sheet
These facts and definitions should be mastered throughout this unit. This page can be used for periodic review and study as you are finishing the unit and in the future.
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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