Test 8

Question 1

This man is considered the Father of American Missions

Answer 1

Adoniram Judson

Question 2

This man was one of the best-known circuit-riding preachers

Answer 2

Peter Cartwright

Question 3

This woman was responsible for New York City’s first Sunday school program

Answer 3

Catherine Ferguson

Question 4

This man wrote the first major American dictionary

Answer 4

Noah Webster

Question 5

Sacagawea was the guide to these two explorers

Answer 5

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

Question 6

This man was the leader of the “haystack prayer meetings”

Answer 6

Samuel J. Mills

Question 7

This is America’s first missionary to a foreign land

Answer 7

George Liehle

Question 8

This man was the fiery black preacher who ministered in Civil War hospitals

Answer 8

John Jasper

Question 9

This man is considered the Father of Western African Missions

Answer 9

Lott Carey

Question 10

This man is the most famous pioneer of the colonial times

Answer 10

Daniel Boone

Question 11

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?

Answer 11

The Louisiana Purchase of 1803

Question 12

America declared war on England in this year __________ One of the reasons was because the English were kidnapping American sailors.

Answer 12

1812

Question 13

This man was the American general that was responsible or the victory at the Battle of New Orleans

Answer 13

Andrew Jackson

Question 14

General Sam Houston captured Santa Anna and the Mexican army in this battle

Answer 14

Battle of 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 this country

Answer 16

Japan

Question 17

This man was the first Baptist missionary to Japan

Answer 17

Johnathan Goble

Question 18

This is the name of the trail blazed by Daniel Boone for pioneers headed west

Answer 18

Wilderness Road

Question 19

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

Answer 19

The Northwest Ordinance

Question 20

This is the name of the first major man-made canal in the United States

Answer 20

Erie Canal

Question 21

Preachers who traveled form 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

Answer 22

The spiritual

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Fisk Jubilee Singers

Question 24

The most heroic and best remembered battle in Texas’ struggle for independence was

Answer 24

The Battle of the Alamo

Question 25

Gold miners in the California Gold Rush were called

Answer 25

Forty-niners

Question 26

Empty, deserted towns left after gold miners had moved on were called

Answer 26

Ghost towns

Question 27

This man was the author of a children’s reaching series used in America in the 1800s

Answer 27

William McGuffey

Question 28

This man was one of the beloved hymn writers of the 1800s

Answer 28

Isaac Watts

Question 29

This man was the President responsible for obtaining the Louisiana Purchase

Answer 29

President Thomas Jefferson

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Mexican Cession

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Gadsden Purchase

Question 32

How did a pioneer family prepare to move west? 4 answers

Answer 32

1. The family would buy a covered wagon and the supplies that they needed.
2. They would load the wagon with tools, food (flour, salt, bacon etc),blankets, cooking utensils, and the family Bible.
3. They would also tie livestock to the wagon.
4. They would travel west to Pittsburg where they sold their wagon and bought a flatboat to cross the Ohio River.

Question 33

Later pioneers might follow this ____________ instead of the Ohio River

Answer 33

Erie Canal

Question 34

What did most pioneers travel in?

Answer 34

Covered wagons and flatboats