Americans who Expanded our Freedom
3rd Grade S.S. Standards: SS3H2, SS3G2, & SS3CG2
Presidents & Judge
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Lyndon B. Johnson
Thurgood Marshall
Lyndon B. Johnson (Great Society, Voting Rights, & 36th President)
Thurgood Marshall (Civil Rights & Supreme Court Judge)
Notes, William O. Douglas to Earl Warren, 11 May 1954; Harold H. Burton to Warren, 17 May 1954; and Felix Frankfurter to Warren, 17 May 1954, concerning Chief Justice Warren's decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
Determined Ladies
Susan B. Anthony
Mary McLeod Bethune
Eleanor Roosevelt
Susan B. Anthony (Women's Rights)
"Make the slave's case our own"
Letter, Susan B. Anthony to Adelaide Johnson discussing women ministers and Johnson's sculpture memorializing prominent suffragists, 8 February 1896.
Eleanor Roosevelt (United Nations, Human Rights, & 1st Lady)
Lawyer, Writer, & Rider
Cesar Chavez
Frederick Douglass
Paul Revere
Cesar Chavez (Lawyer for Farmers & Worker's Rights)
Frederick Douglass (Civil Rights, Newspaper Owner, & Exslave)
Paul Revere (Independence, Silver Smith, & Famous Rider)
Primary Web References:
Franklin Roosevelt:
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=69
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=70
Eleanor Roosevelt:
Cesar Chavez:
Frederick Douglass:
Lyndon B. Johnson:
Mary M. Bethune:
Paul Revere:
Susan B. Anthony:
Thurgood Marshall:
3rd Grade Standards:
SS3H2 The student will discuss the lives of Americans who expanded people’s rights and freedoms in a democracy.
a. Paul Revere (independence), Frederick Douglass (civil rights), Susan B. Anthony (women’s rights), Mary McLeod Bethune (education), Franklin D. Roosevelt (New Deal and World War II), Eleanor Roosevelt (United Nations and human rights), Thurgood Marshall (civil rights), Lyndon B. Johnson (Great Society and voting rights), and César Chávez (workers’ rights).
b. Explain social barriers, restrictions, and obstacles that these historical figures had to overcome and describe how they overcame them.
SS3G2 The student will describe the cultural and geographic systems associated with the historical figures in SS3H2a.
a. Identify on a political map specific locations significant to the life and times of these historical figures.
b. Describe how place (physical and human characteristics) had an impact on the lives of these historical figures.
c. Describe how each of these historical figures adapted to and was influenced by his/her environment.
d. Trace examples of travel and movement of these historical figures and their ideas across time.
e. Describe how the regions in which these historical figures lived affected their lives and had an impact on their cultural identification.
SS3CG2 The student will discuss the character of different historical figures in SS3H2a.
a. Describe how the different historical figures in SS3H2a display positive character traits of cooperation, diligence, courage, and leadership.
b. Explain how the historical figures in SS3H2a used positive character traits to support their beliefs in liberty, justice, tolerance, and freedom of conscience and expression.
c. Explain how the historical figures in SS3H2a chose when to respect and accept authority.