Judy Potempa
4th Grade, Social Studies
Saint William School
NOTE: In order to play this game, it must be viewed in slide show (F5)
Read the sentence on each slide.
Then click on the button that
provides the correct answer.
This African American woman
refused to give up her bus
seat to a white passenger in
Alabama. She was arrested,
and her actions caused a bus
boycott.
Rosa Parks
Condoleezza Rice
Ruby Bridges Hall
He changed the cotton industry through his
invention of the cotton gin, which easily
removed seeds from raw cotton.
Henry Ford
John Deere
Eli Whitney
He was a successful inventor who changed our
way of living by creating many inventions,
including the telephone.
Thomas Edison
Cyrus McCormick
Alexander Graham Bell
He was our nation’s first African-American
Supreme Court justice. Earlier in his law career,
he argued an important case, Brown v. Board of
Education, which was about students’ rights to
education.
George Washington Carver
Thurgood Marshall
Martin Luther King, Jr.
She founded Hull House in 1889 in Chicago - a
settlement house that provided social and
educational services.
Jane Addams
Ruby Bridges
Ida Wells
He has been called the “Father of National Parks.”
He was known as a wilderness explorer
and for his adventures in
California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains.
John Muir
Abraham Lincoln
John Adams
His model T automobile (car) helped to improve
assembly line manufacturing in factories.
Upton Sinclair
Meriwether Lewis
Henry Ford
He was a blacksmith who successfully developed
the steel plow. His company still offers farming,
construction, and lawn care equipment
.
John Deere
Eli Whitney
Thomas Edison
He discovered uses for agricultural products
(such as peanuts, soybeans,
pecans, and sweet potatoes).
Henry Ford
George Washington Carver
Cyrus McCormick
His mom was a Cherokee (Native American)
and his father was an English fur trader.
He never learned to read or write but developed
a Cherokee syllabary (writing system)
which is still used today.
Sacagawea
Squanto
Sequoyah
He invented electric (incandescent) lighting
and the phonograph (record player).
Thomas Edison
Walt Disney
William Clark
She was called the “Mother of Wilderness” and
did most of her work in the state of Alaska where
she lived most of her life while
promoting the protection of wilderness.
Rosa Parks
Margaret Murie
Condoleezza Rice