Abeka 8Th Grade History Test 5

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Locate on map:

Missouri

Mississippi River

Madison

Lake Michigan

Arkansas

North Dakota

Missouri River

Indiana

Columbus

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Missouri

Mississippi River

Madison

Lake Michigan

Arkansas

North Dakota

Missouri River

Indiana

Columbus

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Why was education important?

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Because Americans realized that for people to remain free they must be educated.

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What did early schools practice?

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Traditional education, which passes the accumulated knowledge of the past to the present generation.

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What was taught in schools during the 1800's to the American philosophy of education?

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Reading, writing, geography, arithmetic, spiritual and patriotic values.

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the value of owning private land

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important lesson learned on the family farm

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because they teach that salvation is gained by works

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all false religions are alike

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people were burdened to share the gospel and bring social reform

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greatest influence of the Second Great Awakening

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era of American literature emphasized man's aspirations, emotions, individuality, personal experiences, and imagination

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Romantic

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wrote the first dictionary of the American language

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Noah Webster

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promoted the idea of public primary school

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Horace Mann

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group of American poets who emphasized family values and patriotism in their works

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Schoolroom or Fireside Poets

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evangelists that went on horseback, conducting church services on the frontier

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circuit rider

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America's greatest contribution to the field of music

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Negro spiritual

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name of the Cherokee Indian who invented a written language for his people

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Sequoya

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leading evangelist of the Second Great Awakening

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Charles Finney

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book that Henry David Thoreau wrote that recorded his experiences with nature

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Walden

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year that America's first foreign mission board was founded

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1810

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improved the treatment of the mentally ill

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Dorothea L Dix

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helped organize the first women's rights convention

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Elizabeth Stanton

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best remembered for his reading textbooks

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William McGuffey

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]wrote "Snow-bound"

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John Greenleaf Whittier]

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wrote "The Scarlet Letter"

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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year that the treaty was signed to open Japan to Christian missionaries

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1858

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artist best remembered for painting portraits of George Washington

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Gilbert Stuart

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first state university to begin operating

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University of North Carolina

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was organized in 1816 to distribute Bibles to frontier families

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American Bible Society

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the first state to outlaw the use of liquor

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Maine

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Hawaiian ruler united all the main islands

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Kamehameha 1

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pioneered the camp meeting revival

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James McGready

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started New York City's first Sunday school program

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Catherine Ferguson

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founded New York City's first settlement house

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Phoebe Palmer

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wrote over two hundred songs, including "Swanee River," "My Old Kentucky Home," and "Oh! Susanna."

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Stephen Foster

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known for painting scenes of "the Peaceable Kingdom"

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Edward Hicks

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only American poet honored in England's Westminister Abbey

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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became Africa's first black republic

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Liberia

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became known as America's greatest science teacher

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Louis Agassiz

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developed transcendentalism

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Ralph Waldo Emersond

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reserved as a missionary to plantation workers

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Caesar McLemo

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trained young men to preach the gospel as they rode regular routes throughout New England

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Francis Asbury

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opened Japan to missionaries

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Townshend Harris

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Father of Western African Missions

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Lott Carey

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first Baptist missionary to Japan

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Jonathan Goble

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discovered the Hawaiian Islands in 1778

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James Cook

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opened Japan to trade

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Matthew Perry

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Father of American Missions

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Adoniram Judson

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founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church

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Richard Allen

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ESSAY:

Relate what was taught in schools during the 1800's to the American philosophy of education. Include why education was important.

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During the 1800's, Reading, writing, arithmetic, geography were taught in schools along with spiritual and patriotic values. Traditional education was was taught in early schools, which passes dawn the knowledge gathered from the past to the present generation. Americans realized that education was important, because for people to remain free you needed to be educated.