Grade 6 History Test 9 Chap 9/wild West

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"Father of American Missions"

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Adoniram Judson

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the most famous pioneer of the colonial times

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Danial Boone

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one of the best known circuit-riding preachers

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Peter Cartwright

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"Father of Western African Missions"

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Lott Carey

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black preacher who ministered in Civil War hospitals

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John Jasper

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the woman reponsible for New York City's first Sunday school program

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Catherine Ferguson

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leader of the "haystack prayer meetings"

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Samuel J. Mills

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Man who wrote the first major American dictionary

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Noah Webster

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Shoshone Indian guide for Lewis and Clark

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Sacagawea

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America's first missionary to a foreign land

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George Liele

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purchase of 1803 that more than doubled the size of the United States

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Louisiana Purchase

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

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San Jacinto

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In what year did America declare war on England because they were kidnapping American sailors?

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1812

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the state that was once an independant country

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Texas

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

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Andrew Jackson

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as a result of this war Mexico accepted the Rio Grande as the border between Mexico and Texas

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Mexican War

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Where was gold discovered in 1848

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California

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The Whitman's were the most famous missionaries to

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Oregon

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Commodore Matthew Perry was responsible for opening American trade with

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Japan

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the first Baptist missionary to Japan

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Jonathan Goble

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The trail blazed by Daniel Boone for pioneers headed west is called the

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Wilderness Road

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

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Northwest Ordinance

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deserted towns left after gold miners had moved on were called

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ghost towns

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gold miners in the California gold rush were called

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forty-niners

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the first major man-made canal in the United States was the

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Erie Canal

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

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circuit-riding preachers

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the most heroic and best- remembered battle in Texas's struggle for independance was at the

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Alamo

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the treaty that officially ended the War of 1812

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Treaty of Ghent

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

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spiritual

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the group that introduced the spirituals to the Northern states and Europe was

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Fisk Jubilee Singers

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

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William McGuffey

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one of the beloved hymn writers of the 1800s

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Isaac Watts

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the President responsible for obtaining the Louisiana Purchase

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Thomas Jefferson

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

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Mexican Cession

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

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Gadsen Purchase

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Describe the life of a circuit-riding preacher.

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See text p. 165

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Be able to discuss a pioneers preparation to move West, routes they took, and types of vehicles used to travel.

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See text p. 162-163, also the Wilderness Road on p.161

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Be able to locate: Arkansas, Ohio, Snake, Madeira, and Parana Rivers; also Gulf of Panama, Angel Falls, Gulf of Tahuantepec, Niagara Falls, and Labrador Sea

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Review map skills page 31, 59