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