American Heroes

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American Heroes

• We all need a hero sometimes!

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What it can be

• Any U.S. President
• Any American who had a major impact on the world
• Someone you are really interested in learning
  about
• Someone that has information available

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What it CANT be

• An athlete/individual who was famous but did not
  have a big impact on society
• Any John Doe
• If you pick someone who fought in war, you may
  not use any fake guns and you may not glorify
  war
• Someone that doesnt have a lot of information
  available
• Someone who is not American

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Pocahontas

• Famous Indian who helped to save Jamestown
• Fun Fact Later changed her name to Rebecca

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Sacajawea

• Famous Indian guide for Lewis and Clark
• Fun Fact She found her long-lost brother on the
  expedition who was chief of a big tribe.

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Crazy Horse

• Famous Indian Chief
• Fun Fact Was called Curly as a child for his
  curly hair

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Sitting Bull

• Famous Indian Chief
• Fun Fact The largest sculpture in the Legoland
  park is of Sitting Bull.

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Davy Crockett

• Famous frontiersman and senator
• Fun Fact Died at the Alamo in the
  Mexican-American War

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Daniel Boone

• Famous frontiersman
• Fun Fact Was childhood friends with Abraham
  Lincoln

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John Chapman

• Famous as Johnny Appleseed
• Fun Fact Owned a lot of land when he died

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Philo Taylor Farnsworth

• Famous inventor who invented the TV
• Fun Fact Got the ideas for his inventions by
  plowing fields

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Milton Hershey

• Famous for inventing the printing press (just
  kidding--CHOCOLATE!)
• Fun Fact--One of the richest men at the time

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Henry Ford

• Famous inventor of the Model-T car
• Fun Fact Loved to race automobiles

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Wilbur and Orville Wright

• Famous for invention of the airplane
• Fun Fact No one believed that they had made an
  airplane until a year later

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James Naismith

• Famous for inventing the game of basketball
• Fun Fact Was a football coach looking for some
  other way for players to get exercise

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Thomas Edison

• Famous inventor of light bulb and other items
• Fun Fact Struggled in school and had ADHD

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Martin Luther King Jr.

• Famous civil rights activist for black rights
• Fun Fact--Was never violent but always used
  peaceful ways

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Rosa Parks

• Famous civil rights activist and started
  Montgomery Bus Boycott
• Fun Fact Was fined 10 for her crime

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Harriet Tubman

• Famous conductor of the underground railroad
• Fun Fact Was known as Moses for taking the
  slaves to freedom

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Jackie Robinson

• Famous as the first African-American baseball
  player
• Fun Fact Holds the record for stealing home the
  most in a career

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Lou Gehrig

• Famous baseball player who died from a disease
  later named after him
• Fun Fact Holds the record for most career grand
  slams

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Helen Keller

• Famous individual who was deaf and blind
• Fun Fact Was not born blind and deaf

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Susan B. Anthony

• Famous womans rights activist
• Fun Fact Grew up in a Quaker family

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Mary Ludwig Hayes

• Famous nurse of the Revolutionary War
• Fun Fact Better known as Molly Pitcher for
  bringing water to the men

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Clara Barton

• Famous nurse in the Civil War and founder of the
  Red Cross
• Fun Fact Saved her brother from dying after he
  fell off of a barn roof when she was age 11

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Deborah Sampson

• Famous woman fighter of the Revolutionary War
• Fun Fact Dressing up as a man to fight in the
  war, she named herself Robert Shurtliff.

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Amelia Earhart

• Famous airplane pilot who became the first woman
  to fly across the Atlantic
• Fun Fact While trying to fly across the Pacific
  Ocean, her plane crashed. No one knows what
  happened to her.

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Sally Ride

• Famous as first woman astronaut in space
• Fun Fact Also the youngest astronaut in space

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John Glenn

• Famous astronaut who was the first to orbit the
  earth
• Fun Fact Also was a U.S. Senator

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Neil Armstrong

• Famous astronaut and the first man on the moon
• Fun Fact There were two other astronauts with
  him on his flight. He was the first one off of
  the spaceship.

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Annie Oakley

• Famous sharpshooter of the Wild West
• Fun Fact Fell in love with her future husband
  after beating him in a shooting contest

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Laura Ingalls Wilder

• Famous author of Little House on the Prairie
  series
• Fun Fact Her daughter, Rose, inspired her to
  write the series.

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Walt Disney

• Famous cartoonist and creator of Mickey Mouse
• Fun Fact Provided the first voice for his most
  famous character, Mickey Mouse.

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Plenty of others too!

• Charles Lindbergh, Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin
  Banneker, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Robert E. Lee
  are just a few of the others you could pick!
• Make sure you pick someone who interests you!