Heroes and Helpers: Significant Individuals

🏛️ HistoryEasy⏱ 9 min

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to in a war called the War. She the , the , and made their . Because of her , far . She was called the with the . 🕯️

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Out of every 100 wounded soldiers, about 42 died before Florence's changes — only about 2 after her hospital was cleaned.

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In 1955, to up her . She was , but her act a . using the for over a . The law was . win . ✊

she was not that day — she was of in to . the thing is NO to .

Who	When	Problem they faced	What they did
Florence Nightingale	1820–1910	Dirty hospitals killed soldiers	Cleaned wards and trained nurses
Rosa Parks	1913–2005	Unfair laws treated people unequally	Refused to give up her bus seat

Florence and Rosa — same courage, different times

Two heroes, two different times — both changed the world.

🔗 Match each fact to the right person. Can you remember who did what? 🌟

🗂️ Sort these sentences into the right category. Think carefully about which hero each one describes! 🤔

Both and big , but they did not . used and . used , . They in and , but both made for many, many . 🌍

We in because their had a — they things that . . the . 🌺

🧩 Put these events in the correct order from earliest to latest. History always has a timeline! ⏳

Quiz time! 📝

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