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American Heroes
We all need a hero sometimes!
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
What it CAN’T 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 doesn’t have a lot of
information available
 Someone who is not American
Pocahontas
 Famous Indian who
helped to save
Jamestown
 Fun Fact: Later
changed her name
to Rebecca
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.
Crazy Horse
 Famous Indian Chief
 Fun Fact: Was called
“Curly” as a child for
his curly hair
Sitting Bull
 Famous Indian Chief
 Fun Fact: The
largest sculpture in
the Legoland park is
of Sitting Bull.
Davy Crockett
 Famous
frontiersman and
senator
 Fun Fact: Died at
the Alamo in the
Mexican-American
War
Daniel Boone
 Famous
frontiersman
 Fun Fact: Was
childhood friends
with Abraham
Lincoln
John Chapman
 Famous as “Johnny
Appleseed”
 Fun Fact: Owned a
lot of land when he
died
Philo Taylor Farnsworth
 Famous inventor
who invented the TV
 Fun Fact: Got the
ideas for his
inventions by
plowing fields
Milton Hershey
 Famous for
inventing the
printing press (just
kidding-CHOCOLATE!)
 Fun Fact--One of the
richest men at the
time
Henry Ford
 Famous inventor of
the Model-T car
 Fun Fact: Loved to
race automobiles
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
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
Thomas Edison
 Famous inventor of
light bulb and other
items
 Fun Fact: Struggled
in school and had
ADHD
Martin Luther King Jr.
 Famous civil rights
activist for black
rights
 Fun Fact--Was never
violent but always
used peaceful ways
Rosa Parks
 Famous civil rights
activist and started
Montgomery Bus
Boycott
 Fun Fact: Was fined
$10 for her “crime”
Harriet Tubman
 Famous conductor
of the underground
railroad
 Fun Fact: Was
known as “Moses”
for taking the slaves
to freedom
Jackie Robinson
 Famous as the first
African-American
baseball player
 Fun Fact: Holds the
record for stealing
home the most in a
career
Lou Gehrig
 Famous baseball
player who died
from a disease later
named after him
 Fun Fact: Holds the
record for most
career grand slams
Helen Keller
 Famous individual
who was deaf and
blind
 Fun Fact: Was not
born blind and deaf
Susan B. Anthony
 Famous woman’s
rights activist
 Fun Fact: Grew up in
a Quaker family
Mary Ludwig Hayes
 Famous nurse of the
Revolutionary War
 Fun Fact: Better
known as “Molly
Pitcher” for bringing
water to the men
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
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.
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.
Sally Ride
 Famous as first
woman astronaut in
space
 Fun Fact: Also the
youngest astronaut
in space
John Glenn
 Famous astronaut
who was the first to
orbit the earth
 Fun Fact: Also was a
U.S. Senator
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.
Annie Oakley
 Famous
sharpshooter of the
“Wild West”
 Fun Fact: Fell in love
with her future
husband after
beating him in a
shooting contest
Laura Ingalls Wilder
 Famous author of
“Little House on the
Prairie” series
 Fun Fact: Her
daughter, Rose,
inspired her to write
the series.
Walt Disney
 Famous cartoonist
and creator of
Mickey Mouse
 Fun Fact: Provided
the first voice for his
most famous
character, Mickey
Mouse.
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!