Unit 2 Celebrating People and Places

This holiday is celebrated on the “first Tuesday after the first Monday” in November. It is called a holiday because many people do not have to work because they are encouraged to go out and vote.

• Bill of Rights Day

• Election Day

• Veteran's Day

• President's Day

This holiday is celebrated on November 11. This day was picked because World War I ended on November 11, 1918. It was created to help us honor and celebrate people who have served in the military.

• Arbor Day

• Bill of Rights Day

• President's Day

• Veteran's Day

This holiday is dedicated to planting trees and helping them grow. South Carolina is the only state in the nation to celebrate in December, the first Friday of the month.

• Election Day

• Martin Luther King Jr. Day

• Arbor Day

• Veteran's Day

This holiday is celebrated on the third Monday in January. It honors a man whose powerful words and non-violent protest helped change what life looks like for African Americans.

• Martin Luther King Jr. Day

• Veteran's Day

• President's Day

• Arbor Day

This holiday is celebrates the first 10 amendments of the Constitution. In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated December 15 to honor the documents 150th anniversary. It wasn’t until 1962 that President John F Kennedy proclaimed it to be honored every year.

• Veteran's Day

• Election Day

• Arbor Day

• Bill of Rights Day

This person was the leader of the Wampanoag people and made an agreement with the Puritans to have his people teach them to live in their new home. The Puritans learned how to fish, farm, and hunt.

• Frederick Douglas

• Squanto

• Abraham Lincoln

• Martin Luther King Jr.

This person spoke to millions of people about peacefully protesting to bring change and equal rights for everyone to our country. He became famous for his powerful and important speeches.

• Abraham Lincoln
• Frederick Douglas

• Squanto

• Martin Luther King Jr.

This person refused to give up her seat to a white on a bus and arrested in Montgomery, Alabama. This led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1951. She is known as “the mother of the civil rights movement”.

• Rosa Parks

• Squanto

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Frederick Douglas

This person escaped slavery and became a very well known speaker. He spoke to groups of people all around the country about why slavery should be illegal and what life was like for slaves.

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Squanto

• Frederick Douglas

• Rosa Parks

This person was the 16th president of our country. He was president during the time of the Civil War, a war where different parts of the USA were fighting with each other over slavery and other issues. He made slavery illegal.

• Squanto

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Frederick Douglas

• Abraham Lincoln