People: Read-and-Answer Worksheets

Read-and-Answer Johnny Appleseed Quiz Read about Johnny Appleseed, then take a quiz on his life. Or go to the answers.	Crispus Attucks: Printable Read-and-Answer Worksheet A printable worksheet on Crispus Attucks, the first person to die for the American Revolutionary cause (he died in the Boston Massacre). The printout has information on Attucks' life, questions about him, and a picture to color. Answers: 1. Natick, 2. Massachusetts, 3. Boston Massacre, 4. Redcoats (British soldiers), 5. die.	James Baldwin: Printable Read-and-Answer Worksheet A printable worksheet on James Baldwin, the great African American auhor who wrote about the racial inequalities in American life. The printout has information on Baldwin's life, questions about him, and a picture to color. Answers: 1. Harlem, New York, 2. reading, 3. writer, 4. Civil Rights Movement, 5. France.	Cesar Chavez: Printable Worksheet Print out a worksheet on Cesar Chavez with information on his life, a picture to color and three questions to answer. Answers: 1. United Farm Workers, 2. pesticides, 3. lettuce and grapes.
Juan de Oñate: Printable Read-and-Answer Worksheet A printable worksheet on the Spanish conquistador and founder of New Mexico, Juan de Onate, with text to read, a map, and questions to answer. Or go to the answers. Or go to a pdf of the quiz + answers.	Melvil Dewey and the Dewey Decimal System: Printable Read-and-Answer Worksheet A printable worksheet on the Dewey Decimal library classification system, with text to read, decimals to put in order, and questions to answer. Or go to the answers.	Emily Dickinson: Printable Read-and-Answer Worksheet A printable worksheet on the poet Emily Dickinson, with a short biography, a picture to color, and questions to answer. Answers: 1. 1830, 2. Massachusetts, 3. nature and emotions, 4. no, 5. no.	Frederick Douglass: Printable Read-and-Answer Worksheet A printable worksheet on the abolitionist Frederick Douglass. The printout has information on Frederick Douglass' life, questions about him, and a picture to color. Answers: 1. Maryland, 2. slavery, 3. Abraham Lincoln, 4. the Civil War, 5. an anti-slavery newspaper.
Amelia Earhart: Printable Read-and-Answer Worksheet A printable worksheet on the navigator Amelia Earhart, with a short biography, a picture to color, and three questions to answer. Answers: 1. Atlantic Ocean, 2. Pacific Ocean, 3. no.	Dwight David Eisenhower: Printable Read-and-Answer Worksheet A printable worksheet on President Dwight David Eisenhower, with a short biography, a picture to color, and questions to answer. Answers: 1. 1890, 2. Texas, 3. General, 4. Ike, 5. Two, 6. Korean War.	Estevanico: Printable Read-and-Answer Worksheet A printable worksheet on the explorer/slave Estevanico (also called Esteban, Steven the Moor, and Black Steven). The printout has information on Estevanico's life, questions about him, and a map to color. Answers: 1. Morocco, 2. Native Americans, 3. Zuni.	Gerald Ford: Printable Read-and-Answer Worksheet A printable worksheet on US President Gerald Ford, with a short biography, a picture to color, and questions to answer. Answers: 1. US Congressman, 2. Richard Nixon, 3. Watergate, 4. Richard Nixon, 5. Jimmy Carter, 6. law degree.
Benjamin Franklin: Printable Read-and-Answer Worksheet A printable worksheet on Benjamin Franklin, with a short biography, a picture to color, and questions to answer. Answers: 1. Jan. 17, 1706, 2. The Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution, 3. founding, 4. Philadelphia.	Mae Jemison: Printable Read-and-Answer Worksheet A printable worksheet on the pioneering African-American astronaut Mae Carol Jemison. The printout has information on Jemison, questions, and a picture to color. Answers: 1. Mechanical Engineering and Afro-American Studies, 2. A medical degree, 3. 1992.	Julius Caesar: Printable Read and Answer Worksheet A printable worksheet on Julius Caesar. Read the short biography, then answer the questions. Or go to the quiz answers, or to a PDF of the worksheet and answers (subscribers only).	Helen Keller: Printable Read-and-Answer Worksheet A printable worksheet on Helen Keller, with a short biography, a picture to color, and questions to answer. Or go to the answers.
John F. Kennedy: Printable Read-and-Answer Worksheet A printable worksheet on President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, with a short biography, a picture to color, and questions to answer. Answers: 1. 1917, 2. Massachusetts, 3. 43, 4. Putting Americans on the moon by the end of the 1960s, 5. Dallas.	Martin Luther King, Jr.: Printable Read-and-Answer Worksheet A printable worksheet on Martin Luther King, Jr., who did extraordinary work for civil rights. The printout has information on Martin Luther King, Jr., questions, and a picture to color. Answers: 1. Georgia, 2. 15 years old, 3. Montgomery, Alabama, 4. April 4, 1968, 5. January.	Florence Nightingale: Printable Read-and-Answer Worksheet A printable worksheet on Florence Nightingale, with a short biography, a picture to color, and questions to answer. Or go to the answers.	Barack Obama: Printable Read-and-Answer Worksheet A printable worksheet on President Barack Obama, with a short biography, a picture to color, and questions to answer. Answers: 1. August 4, 1961, 2. Hawaii, 3. Kogelo, Kenya, Africa, 4. Illinois, 5. Joseph Biden.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Printable Read-and-Answer Worksheet A printable worksheet on President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, with a short biography, a picture to color, and questions to answer. Answers: 1. 1882, 2. New York, 3. Four, 4. the Great Depression, 5. polio, 6. World War II.	Rosa Parks: Printable Read-and-Answer Worksheet A printable worksheet on Rosa Parks, who sued to protest segregation on city buses in Montgomery, Alabama. The printout has information on Rosa Parks, questions, and a picture to color. Answers: 1. She refused to give up her seat to a white man, 2. Alabama, 3. buses, 4. Martin Luther King, Jr., 5. segregation.	Pocahontas: Printable Read-and-Answer Worksheet A printable worksheet on the American Indian Pocahontas, with a short biography, a picture to color, and questions to answer. Answers: 1. Chief Powhatan, 2. John Smith, 3. Jamestown, 4. John Rolfe, 5. England.	Dred Scott: Printable Read-and-Answer Worksheet A printable worksheet on the slave Dred Scott who sued for his freedom. The printout has information on Dred Scott, questions, and a picture to color. Answers: 1. He lost the case, 2. Yes, 3. Slavery expanded, 4. 13th Amendment, 1865, 5. 14th Amendment, 1868.
Mark Twain: Printable Read-and-Answer Worksheet A printable worksheet on the writer Mark Twain, with a short biography, a picture to color, and questions to answer. Answers: 1. 1835, 2. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 3. Sawyer, 4. Halley's comet.

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