People Who Shaped Their Community

Mark the word that best completes the sentence. Every community has changed because of people in its

• future

• history

• schools

Thurgood Marshall and Irma Rangel both worked

• to protect the land

• to help immigrants

• to help people go to school

• for the mayor of the same town

Why couldn't most children go to school?

• They wanted to work

• They didn't like school

• They didn't have money

• There were very few schools

History shows us how people and _______ shaped our communities.

• places

• events

• buildings

• religion

People and events can change a community.

• True

• False

Mark the word that best completes the sentence.

President Roosevelt created a law to keep _____ from being destroyed.

• cars

• land

• people

Dr. Kalpana Chawla went into space because

• she needed to fly

• she writes stories about space

• she wanted to fix machines there

• she was interested in movies and space

Who fought to protect natural wilderness

• Thurgood Marshall

• Irma Rangel

• Theodore Roosevelt

Who fought for the rights of minorities

• Thurgood Marshall

• Irma Rangel

• Theodore Roosevelt

Who fought to end segregation

• Thurgood Marshall

• Irma Rangel

• Theodore Roosevelt