Test 8 -Chapter 9 review and Map Mastery 12 Flashcards
Who was the most famous pioneer of the colonial times?
Daniel Boone
Who was known as “Father of American Missions”?
Adoniram Judson
Who was known as “Father of Western African Missions”?
Lott Carey
Who was one of the best-known circuit riding preachers?
Peter Cartwright
Who was the fiery black preacher that ministered in Civil War hospitals?
John Jasper
Who was the woman responsible for New York City’s first Sunday school program?
Catherine Ferguson
Who was America’s first missionary to a foreign land?
George Liele
Who was the man that wrote the first major American dictionary?
Noah Webster
Who was the leader of the “haystack prayer meetings”?
Samuel J. Mills
Who did Sacagawea act as a guide and interpreter for?
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
Who was the first Baptist missionary to Japan?
Jonathan Goble
What took place in 1803 that more than doubled the size of the United States?
Louisiana Purchase
Commodore Matthew Perry was responsible for opening American trade with what country?
Japan
What year did America declare war on England?
1812
The Whitmans were the most famous missionaries to what state?
Oregon
Who was responsible for the victory at the Battle of New Orleans?
Andrew Jackson
General Sam Houston captured Santa Anna and the Mexican army at which battle?
Battle of San Jacinto
What were empty, deserted towns called after gold miners left?
ghost towns
What is the name of the trail blazed by Daniel Boone for pioneers headed West?
Wilderness Road
Gold miners in California were called what?
Forty-niners
What guaranteed the freedom of religion and protection to those settling in the Northwest Territory?
Northwest Ordinance
The most heroic and best remembered battle in Texas’s struggle for independence was at the what?
Alamo
Preachers who traveled from town to town preaching in areas that had no pastor were called what?
circuit-riding preachers
What was the name of the treaty that officially ended the War of 1812?
Treaty of Ghent
What is America’s greatest contribution to the field of music?
spiritual
The group that introduced the spiritual to the northern states and Europe
Fisk Jubilee Singers
Who was the author of a children’s reading series used in America in the 1800’s?
William McGuffey
What was the purchase that makes up the southern parts of the states of New Mexico and Arizona?
Gadsden Purchase
One of the beloved hymn writers of the 1800’s
Isaac Watts
The purchase that makes up the states of California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Colorado
Mexican Cession
Who was the President responsible for obtaining the Louisiana Purchase?
Thomas Jefferson
Know these locations
Ohio River, Gulf of Panama, Arkansas River, Angel Falls, Snake River, Gulf of Tehuantepec, Maderia River, Niagara Falls, Parana River, Labrador Sea
How did a pioneer family prepare to move West? What routes might they take? What types of vehicles might they use for transportation?
Find these answers and be prepared to answer them in complete sentences
