Famous Americans

1. Rosa Parks ______ to give up her seat on a public bus and helped initiate the civil rights movement.
4. In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. led a huge ______ in Washington, D.C. and gave the "I Have a Dream" speech.
8. Jackie Robinson was a player in major league ______.
11. Abraham Lincoln was the ________ of the U.S. who helped to free enslaved African Americans.
12. ______ is a person who moves from place to place seeking work.

2. In 1962, Jackie was voted into the National Baseball Hall of ______.
3. Cesar is remembered for using nonviolent protests such as ______.
5. Helen Keller _______ her disabilities and worked to help others who were blind and deaf.
6. Thurgood Marshall was a ______ who defended people for equal rights.
7. Benjamin Franklin proved that ________ was present in lightning through a kite experiment.
8. ______ means to refuse to do business with a person, company, or nation in order to punish them to show disapproval.
9. George Washington Carver developed hundreds of uses for _______.
10. Cesar Chavez worked to improve conditions of ______ workers.