6th Grade History Test 8

Question 1

“Father of American Missions”

Answer 1

Adoniram Judson

Question 2

one of the best-known circuit-riding preachers

Answer 2

Peter Cartwright

Question 3

the woman responsible for New York City’s first Sundays school program

Answer 3

Catherine Ferguson

Question 4

the man who wrote the first major American dictionary

Answer 4

Noah Webster

Question 5

Sacagawea aced as their guide and interpreter

Answer 5

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

Question 6

leader of the “haystack prayer meetings”

Answer 6

Samuel J. Mills

Question 7

America’s first missionary to a foreign land

Answer 7

George Liele

Question 8

fiery black preacher who ministered in Civil War hospitals

Answer 8

John Jasper

Question 9

“Father of Western African Missions”

Answer 9

Lott Carey

Question 10

the most famous pioneer of the colonial times

Answer 10

Daniel Boone

Question 11

The ___ Purchase of 1803 more than doubled the size of the United States

Answer 11

Louisiana Purchase

Question 12

The year America declared war on England because the English were kidnapping American sailors

Answer 12

1812

Question 13

The American general responsible for the victory at the Battle of New Orleans

Answer 13

Andrew Jackson

Question 14

General Sam Houston captured Santa Anna and the Mexican army at the Battle of

Answer 14

San Jacinto

Question 15

The Whitmans were the most famous missionaries to

Answer 15

Oregon

Question 16

Commodore Matthew Perry was responsible for opening American trade with

Answer 16

Japan

Question 17

the first Baptist missionary to Japan

Answer 17

Jonathan Goble

Question 18

the trail blazed by Daniel Boone for pioneers headed West

Answer 18

the Wilderness Road

Question 19

Freedom of religion and protection to those settling in the Northwest Territory was guaranteed by the

Answer 19

Northwest Ordinance

Question 20

the first major man-made canal in the United States

Answer 20

Erie Canal

Question 21

Preachers who traveled from town to town preaching in areas that had no pastor were called

Answer 21

circuit-riding preachers

Question 22

America’s greatest contribution to the field of music is the

Answer 22

spiritual

Question 23

the group that introduced the spiritual to the northern states and Europe

Answer 23

the Fisk Jubilee Singers

Question 24

the treaty that officially ended the War of 1812

Answer 24

Treaty of Ghent

Question 25

the most heroic and best-remembered battle in Texas’s struggle for independence was at the

Answer 25

Alamo

Question 26

gold miners in the California Gold Rush were called

Answer 26

forty-niners

Question 27

empty, deserted towns left after gold miners had moved on

Answer 27

ghost towns

Question 28

the author of a children’s reading series used in America in the 1800s

Answer 28

William McGuffey

Question 29

one of the beloved hymn writers of the 1800s

Answer 29

Isaac Watts

Question 30

the President responsible for obtaining the Louisiana Purchase

Answer 30

Thomas Jefferson

Question 31

the purchase that makes up the states of California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Colorado

Answer 31

Mexican Cession

Question 32

the purchase that makes up the southern parts of the states of New Mexico and Arizona

Answer 32

Gadsden Purchase

Question 33

How did a pioneer family prepare to move West? What routes might they take? What types of vehicles might they use for transportation?

Answer 33

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.