American Heroes

A person who makes a

difference in peoples lives.

• hero

• civil rights

• innovator

Ideas that help improve our

lives.

• Sequoyah

• hero

• innovator

Started the first public library

in the U.S.A.

• George Washington Carver

• Thurgood Marshall

• Benjamin Franklin

Taught farmers how to rotate

crops.

• Amelia Earhart

• George Washington Carver

• John Adams

The rights of people.

• civil rights

• hero

• Irma Rangel

First woman to fly alone across

the Atlantic ocean

• Amelia Earhart

• Benjamin Franklin

• Irma Rangel

Invented an alphabet for the

Cherokee language.

• Benjamin Franklin

• Sequoyah

• Thurgood Marshall

Helped American colonists win

independence.

• hero

• Amelia Earhart

• John Adams

First Hispanic woman in the

Texas Legislature

• innovator

• Irma Rangel

• Amelia Earhart

First African American

Supreme Court judge.

• Thurgood Marshall

• George Washington Carver

• Benjamin Franklin