Eleanor Roosevelt

tolerance

respecting the beliefs and practices of others

campaign

time in which those running for office try to convince people to vote for them

Only younger brother

Her mother, father, and brother all died before she was ten.

President Theodore Roosevelt

Her uncle walked her down the aisle.

51

How many countries founded the U.N.?

16

How many years were they married?

78

How old was she when she died?

Women's Rights

What did she speak about to the public?

All kinds of discrimination

What did she speak out against?

Nuclear disarmament and human rights

What did she work for?

Pearl Harbor

What event caused the United States to declare war?

Infection of spinal cord

What is polio?

Northeast region

What part of the country did she live most of her life?

Southeast region

What region is Washington, DC located in?

Work with the United Nations

What was her greatest contribution?

1902

What was the year she made her society debut?

1905

What was the year they married?

1947

What year Eleanor began drafting the Declaration of Human Rights and was elected as head of the United Nations Human Rights Commission.

1921

What year Franklin was infected by polio?

1933

What year did Eleanor became the First Lady of the United States?

1941

What year did Pearl Harbor get attacked?

1941

What year did the United States enter World War II?

1941

What year was FDR re-elected for a third term?

1945

When was the United Nations founded?

New York City

Where Eleanor was born?

England

Where did she go to finishing school?

Europe

Where did she travel to to write about the war?

New York

Where is the United Nations headquartered?

Democratic Party

Which party?

President Kennedy

Who appointed her a second time as a delegate to the United Nations?

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Who was her fifth cousin?

President Truman

Who was president after Franklin?

teacher

Who was she grateful for changing her life?

1884

Year Eleanor was born?

immigrant

a person who comes in a country from another country to live

respect for and acceptance of authority

obeying rules and expectations of adults and leaders

governor

person elected head of a state in the United States

Overcome

Her teacher helped her to (what) her shyness?

respect for and acceptance of authority

As a young person, Eleanor obeyed her grandmother. This shows (what)?

Influenced

By needs of the poor in the Northeast

Tolerance

First positive character trait

League of Women Voters

Name another agency she worked with?

Red Cross

Name one of the agencies she worked with?

Liberty

Second positive character trait

Achievement

She changed the way Americans saw their First Lady.

respect for and acceptance of authority

She expected governmental law put into place by the U.N. and other government offices of authority. This shows (what)?

First Lady activities

She gave weekly press conferences, speeches on the radio and wrote a newspaper column.

U.N. Declaration of Human Rights

She helped write this document.

Principal

She owned a school and held this job.

Daughters of the Amerian Revoluation group

She resigned from this group because they would not allow a black singer to perform at Independence Hall.

tolerance

She show (what) when she wrote back to close to 300,000 letters from people to help them find what they needed.

tolerance

She showed (what) when she worked for an agreement on the Declaration of Human Rights.

Humanitarian

She worked to help the poor and those who did not have someone to speak for them.

Freedom of conscience and expression

Third positive character trat

Purposes of U.N.

U.N. is committed to maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations and promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights as well as peacekeeping.

Volunteer

What activity did she like most volunteer work or going to parties?

17

What age did she return to New York?

Delegate to the United Nations

What did President Truman appoint her to after Franklin died?

National Youth Administration

What did she create to help give young people jobs?

She became his legs

What did she do for him - such as traveled for him, campaigned for him and reported to him?

issues

subjects voters make choices about

authority

the right to lead and make decisions

human rights

the rights, or freedomns, that all humans deserve to have

First lady

the wife of the President of the United States

diligently

with hard work and effort over a long time

cooperation

working together with others