6th Grade History Test 8 Flashcards
“Father of American Missions”
Adoniram Judson
one of the best-known circuit-riding preachers
Peter Cartwright
the woman responsible for New York City’s first Sundays school program
Catherine Ferguson
the man who wrote the first major American dictionary
Noah Webster
Sacagawea aced as their guide and interpreter
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
leader of the “haystack prayer meetings”
Samuel J. Mills
America’s first missionary to a foreign land
George Liele
fiery black preacher who ministered in Civil War hospitals
John Jasper
“Father of Western African Missions”
Lott Carey
the most famous pioneer of the colonial times
Daniel Boone
The ___ Purchase of 1803 more than doubled the size of the United States
Louisiana Purchase
The year America declared war on England because the English were kidnapping American sailors
1812
The American general responsible for the victory at the Battle of New Orleans
Andrew Jackson
General Sam Houston captured Santa Anna and the Mexican army at the Battle of
San Jacinto
The Whitmans were the most famous missionaries to
Oregon
Commodore Matthew Perry was responsible for opening American trade with
Japan
the first Baptist missionary to Japan
Jonathan Goble
the trail blazed by Daniel Boone for pioneers headed West
the Wilderness Road
Freedom of religion and protection to those settling in the Northwest Territory was guaranteed by the
Northwest Ordinance
the first major man-made canal in the United States
Erie Canal
Preachers who traveled from town to town preaching in areas that had no pastor were called
circuit-riding preachers
America’s greatest contribution to the field of music is the
spiritual
the group that introduced the spiritual to the northern states and Europe
the Fisk Jubilee Singers
the treaty that officially ended the War of 1812
Treaty of Ghent
the most heroic and best-remembered battle in Texas’s struggle for independence was at the
Alamo
gold miners in the California Gold Rush were called
forty-niners
empty, deserted towns left after gold miners had moved on
ghost towns
the author of a children’s reading series used in America in the 1800s
William McGuffey
one of the beloved hymn writers of the 1800s
Isaac Watts
the President responsible for obtaining the Louisiana Purchase
Thomas Jefferson
the purchase that makes up the states of California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Colorado
Mexican Cession
the purchase that makes up the southern parts of the states of New Mexico and Arizona
Gadsden Purchase
How did a pioneer family prepare to move West? What routes might they take? What types of vehicles might they use for transportation?
The family would first buy a covered wagon and the supplies they would need. They would load the wagon with tools, food (flour, salt, bacon, etc.), blankets, cooking utensils, and the family Bible. They would also tie livestock to the wagon. They would probably travel west to Pittsburgh where they sold their wagon and bought a flatboat to cross the Ohio River. Later pioneers might follow the Erie Canal. Most pioneers would travel in covered wagons and flatboats.
