Famous Americans

1
Famous Americans

• Presented by
• Ms. Johnsons 2nd Grade

2
Abraham Lincoln

• Abraham Lincoln was born on Feb.12 1809.
• In 1842 he married Mary Todd.
• He was president during the Civil War.
• On April 13 1865 he got shot by John Wilkes Booth.

3
Thurgood Marshall

• Thurgood Marshall is one of the well known
  figures in the history of civil rights in America
  and the first black Supreme court justice.
• He lived till 1908-1993.
• He served the court for 24 years.

4
Amelia Earhart

• She drove her plane 12,00 feet off the grownd.
• Flying became her hobby.
• She was the first American woman to fly solo.
• She lived with her grandparents

5
Booker T Washington.

• Lived from 1856 to 1915.
• Americas major black leader for 20 years.
• He studied brick masonry along with collegiate
  courses.
• He proved a great success in his two years on
  the faculty.

6
Clara Barton

• She was in the civil war.
• Worked as a clerk in the u.s..
• When she was 40 years old the out brake of the
  civil war lanched her life's work.
• After the Battle of Bull Run, she establis hed
  angery too btain. In July 1862, she obtained

7
Daniel Boone

• Born in 1734
• And he died 1820 at the age of 85.
• He was explorer and pioneer.
• He explored the state now called Kentucky.

8
George Washington Carver

• Born a slave Jan.5 1864 Diamond Grove/Missouri
  died 1943.
• He invented peanut butter.
• By 1938 peanuts had become a 200 million dollar
  industry.
• Born a slave later as a free man earned his
  college degree.
• His work won him a international repute.

9
George Washington

• He took his oath of office in 1789.
• He was born in 1732.
• His term lasted from 1789 1797.
• He died of throat infection December 14,1799.
• Washington enjoyed almost three years of rest in
  Mount Vernon after his second term.

10
Harriet Tub man

• Harriet Tubman was born a slave in 1821 near the
  eastern shore of May land.
• Harriet Tubman was born in Dorchester
  Country,Mayland.
• Harriet Tubman lived 1820-1913.
• She leaded 200 people to freedom.
• She is an African American.

11
Helen Keller

• She was nineteen months old when she went blind
  and deaf.
• She was blind and deaf.
• She was very famous.
• Annie Sullivan was Helens teacher.
• Helen wrote many books about her dark and lonely
  life.

12
Henry Ford

• Henry Ford was born on a farm.
• He was a mechanic engineer with Edison.
• Ford was active in several other fields beside
  automobile
• Henry Ford was born on July 30 1863

13
Langston Hughes

• He was a poet .
• He was a famous because he was a Poet
• Although his youth was marked with transition.
• Hughes extracted meaning from the places and
  people whence he came.

14
Louisa May Alcott

• She was born on November 29, 1832.
• She died March 6, 1888.
• She didnt want to get
• married.
• She wrote the books Little Women, Little Men,
  Jos Boy, and many others.

15
Martin Luther King Jr.

• Dr. King won the Nobel Peace Prize on December
  10, 1964.
• Dr.King attend and finished his early education
  at David T. Howard Elementary School. Dr. was
  born at noon on January 15, 1929.
• In 1994 Dr. King graduated from Booker T.
  Washington High School and was admitted to
  Morehouse College at the age of 15.
• Dr. King led many marches against treating black
  people differently.

16
Neil Armstrong

• Born in 1930-.
• Neil was a American astronaut, born in
  Wapakoneta, Ohio.
• He served as a pilot in the U.S. Navy during the
  Korean War.
• In July 1969,Armstrong, as commander of the
  Apollo 11 lunar mission, became the first person
  to set foot on the moon.
• In 1971 he became professor of aerospace
  engineering at the University of Cincinnati.

17
Paul Revere

• Paul Revere was born on January 1, 1735 in
  Boston, Massachusetts.
• He studicd at North Grammar school in Boston.
• He served for a short time in the French and
  Indian War.
• After the war, he married Sarah Orne and entered
  his fathers silversmith business.

18
Pocahontas

• Pocahontas was an Indian princess.
• She was born around 1595 to one of Powhatans
  many wives.
• She probably saw white men for the first time in
  May 1607 when englishmen landed at Jamestown.
• Indians stood over John Smith with clubs as
  though ready to beat him to death if ordered.

19
Sojourner Truth

• Sojourner Truth was born a New York slave in 1797
  on the plantation of Colonel Hardenbergh.
• Her real name was Isabelle Van Wagener.
• After the civil war she gave speeches for equal
  rights.
• Olive Gilbert, a close friend of Sojourner Truth
  wrote a biography of her life.
• On November 26, 1883 Sojourner Truth died.

20
Thomas Edison

• Thomas Edison invented a electric light bulb.
• Edison was born in Milan Ohio on Feb 1847.
• Edison died on Oct 18 1931.
• Edison attended school for three months.
• When Edison was 12 years old he sold newspaper.

21
Albert Einstein

• Einsteins parents, who were nonobservant Jews
  moved from ULM to Munich.
• He was born in Germany.
• He lived from Mar.14,
  
  to Apr.18,1955.
• He discovered electricity.