Test 8 Flashcards
This man is considered the Father of American Missions
Adoniram Judson
This man was one of the best-known circuit-riding preachers
Peter Cartwright
This woman was responsible for New York City’s first Sunday school program
Catherine Ferguson
This man wrote the first major American dictionary
Noah Webster
Sacagawea was the guide to these two explorers
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
This man was the leader of the “haystack prayer meetings”
Samuel J. Mills
This is America’s first missionary to a foreign land
George Liehle
This man was the fiery black preacher who ministered in Civil War hospitals
John Jasper
This man is considered the Father of Western African Missions
Lott Carey
This man is the most famous pioneer of the colonial times
Daniel Boone
The purchase of this piece of land in 1803 more than doubled the size of the United States - what was the name of that piece of land?
The Louisiana Purchase of 1803
America declared war on England in this year __________ One of the reasons was because the English were kidnapping American sailors.
1812
This man was the American general that was responsible or the victory at the Battle of New Orleans
Andrew Jackson
General Sam Houston captured Santa Anna and the Mexican army in this battle
Battle of San Jacinto
The Whitmans were the most famous missionaries to ____________
Oregon
Commodore Matthew Perry was responsible for opening American trade with this country
Japan
This man was the first Baptist missionary to Japan
Johnathan Goble
This is the name of the trail blazed by Daniel Boone for pioneers headed west
Wilderness Road
Freedom of religion and protection to those settling in the Northwest Territory were guaranteed by ________________
The Northwest Ordinance
This is the name of the first major man-made canal in the United States
Erie Canal
Preachers who traveled form 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 was
Fisk Jubilee Singers
The most heroic and best remembered battle in Texas’ struggle for independence was
The Battle of the Alamo
Gold miners in the California Gold Rush were called
Forty-niners
Empty, deserted towns left after gold miners had moved on were called
Ghost towns
This man was the author of a children’s reaching series used in America in the 1800s
William McGuffey
This man was one of the beloved hymn writers of the 1800s
Isaac Watts
This man was the President responsible for obtaining the Louisiana Purchase
President 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 tat makes up the southern parts of the states of New Mexico and Arizona
Gadsden Purchase
How did a pioneer family prepare to move west? 4 answers
- The family would buy a covered wagon and the supplies that they needed.
- 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 travel west to Pittsburg where they sold their wagon and bought a flatboat to cross the Ohio River.
Later pioneers might follow this ____________ instead of the Ohio River
Erie Canal
What did most pioneers travel in?
Covered wagons and flatboats
