"Historical Connections" is much like the activities you can find in any language arts and history teacher's guide. The first historical character's last name is the same as the second historical figure's first name. Clues for each historical figure will help you find the connection. See if you can find five historical connections of your own and place them in the grid section provided for you (13-17). Try to make one of your figures someone from history and someone who children all over the country need to know.

Character 1's Clue	Character 2's Clue
Greatest home run hitter	Killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel
Third president	South president during Civil War
Said "Give me liberty or…"	Famous explorer (N.Y. River/Bay)
Poor Richard Almanac writer	Three term president
Holocaust diary writer	Architect of great buildings
Southern Civil War General	Killed John F. Kennedy
Famous Boxer ("Brown Bomber")	Discovered Penicillin***?
World War I President	Philadelphia's mayor in the 1980's
Wrote Paradise Lost	Pennsylvania governor in the 1970's
Wrote Ulysses	Wrote the poem "Trees"
Best White Sox player	Wrote pamphlet called Common Sense
Religion was Calvinism	American president