Knowledge Builder Answers

11. William Shakespeare

1. I was a famous English playwright who wrote many plays, sonnets, and poems.
2. The three types of plays I wrote were comedies, tragedies, and histories.
3. Some of my best known works are Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, The Merchant of Venice, and Macbeth.

 
12. Martin Luther King Jr.

1. I was one of the major leaders of the Civil Rights Movement.
2. I preached that African Americans should use nonviolence and civil disobedience when fighting for their rights.
3. I made historic speeches such as “I Have a Dream” and “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”.

 
13. Charles Darwin

1. I made many contributions to the study of biological evolution.
2. I wrote a book called the On the Origin of Species.
3. I established a theory called natural selection, where only the fittest organisms of a particular species would survive in nature.

 
14. Abraham Lincoln

1. I wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
2. My whole presidency revolved around the Civil War.
3. I was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, who shouted “Sic semper tyrannis!” as he shot me.

 
15. Mahatma Gandhi

1. I helped my fellow countrymen from India to fight for their independence from British rule.
2. Like Martin Luther King Jr., I too believed in nonviolence and civil disobedience.
3. Like Nelson Mandela after me, I also fought against racial discrimination in South Africa.

 
16. George Washington

1. I was the first President of the United States.
2. I was the general of the American Continental Army during the American Revolution.
3. I could have become America’s first king, but I chose not to.

 
17. Nikola Tesla

1. I made many breakthroughs when it came to inventing things that depended upon electrical power.
2. I invented the first AC electrical system, an electrical system that is still being used today more than any other system.
3. Thomas Edison and I had a rivalry since we competed over whose electrical system would best benefit the world.

 
18. Moses

1. I parted the Red Sea with God’s Help.
2. I led the Israelites out of the land of Egypt to freedom.
3. I am associated with the Ten Commandments.

 
19. Julius Caesar

1. I won many battles as a Roman general and the Roman Empire expanded through my conquests.
2. I became Rome’s first dictator.
3. I uttered the phrase, “Et tu, Brute?”

 
 
 
20. Gautama Buddha

1. My name means “Enlightened One”.
2. I gave birth to the religion of Buddhism.
3. I taught the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path, the Three Universal Truths, and the Five Precepts.