Social Studies 9 Week Assessment Review

Who would the newspaper headline above be about?

• Maria Mitchell

• James Lovell

• Hector P. Garcia

• Louis Pasteur

Which of these people overcame the challenges of blindness and deafness to graduate from college and write books?

• Ruby Bridges

• Helen Keller

• Clara Barton

• Juliette Gordon Low

Who was the doctor that developed a vaccine for polio?

• Jonas Salk

• Cyrus McCormick

• Louis Pasteur

• Maria Mitchell

Read the information in the picture. How are these people improving the community?

• By helping to feed homeless children

• By providing library books to the youth in the community

• By building new schools in the community

• By providing places for children to exercise

First responders are considered heroes in the local communities they serve because they —

• By leading protests

• By fighting for equal rights

• By creating new inventions

• By creating safer communities

Who am I?

• Benjamin Franklin

• Pierre-Charles L’Enfant

• Juan de Oñate

• George Washington

Which American hero is described by the information in the box?

• James Lovell

• B Tomie dePaola

• Hector P. Garcia

• Sam Houston

Which of these people escaped slavery and then helped other enslaved people to freedom?

• Carmen Lomas Garza

• Todd Beamer

• Helen Keller

• Harriet Tubman

Who is the person described in the box?

• Clara Barton

• Ruby Bridges

• Juliette Gordon Low

• Martha Washington

The adult in the picture is helping the community by —

• being friendly

• making good grades

• protecting others

• building a road