History Test Chapter 9

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The most famous pioneer of colonial times

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Daniel Boone

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Wrote the first major American dictionary

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Noah Webster

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Presbyterian minister who wrote the first widely used series of text books

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William McGuffey

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Young Methodist evangelist who established churches and Bible studies on the frontier, his students became known as circuit-riding preachers

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Francis Asbury

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America's first missionary to a foreign land

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George Liele

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Father of American missions

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Adoniram Judson

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Father of western African missions, he became the governor of Liberia

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Lott Carey

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Our third president

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Thomas Jefferson

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Two explorers president Jefferson sent to explore the Louisiana terriitory

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Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

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The Shoshone Indian guide who helped Lewis and Clark

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Sacagawea

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The ranch hand on John Sutter's ranch who discovered gold

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James Marshall

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The most famous missionaries to Oregon

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Dr Marcus Whitman and his wife Narcissa Whitman

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The man who led the American naval fleet to Japan to open trade relations, he conducted the first protestant worship service in japan

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Commodore Matthew Perry

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Diplomatic representative who helped open Japan to American trade as well as Christian missionaries

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Jonathan Goble

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The first Baptist missionary in Japan

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Townsend Harris

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English founder of the Methodist church

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John Wesley

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One of the most famous circuit riders

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Peter Cartwright

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Founder of the first black denomination

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Richard Allen

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Two English hymn writers whose words were popular during the second great awakening

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Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley

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a founder of the American Bible society and leader of the haystack prayer meeting

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Samuel Mills

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minuteman, patriot, preacher

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Lemuel Haynes

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preached to wounded Confederate soldiers and to the Virginia general assembly

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John Jasper

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Started New York's first Sunday school

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Catherine Ferguson

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President during the war of 1812

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James Madison

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Saved important papers and Washington's portrait

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Dolly Madison

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Wrote the star spangled banner

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Francis Scott Key

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defeated the British at the battle of New Orleans

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General Andrew Jackson

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President who purchased Florida from Spain

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James Monroe

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Dictator of Mexico who led Mexican forces at the Alamo

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General Santa Anna

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frontiersman from Tennessee who helped the Texans fight at the Alamo

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Davy Crockett

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Defeated Santa Anna at the battle of San Jacinto and later became president of Texas

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General Sam Houston

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a person who does something first, preparing the way for others

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Pioneer

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long boat with a flat bottom

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Flatboat

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Nickname for Asbury's students because they rode regular routes preaching in areas that did not have a pastor and wherever churches were in need of a revival

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Circuit-riding preacher

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Meetings held by preachers where people from all around gathered together for a week to hear gospel preaching

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Camp meetings

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America's greatest contribution to the field of music, melodic and rhythmic songs

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spirituals

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Nickname for the gold miners

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Forty-niners

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empty, deserted towns where no one lived

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Ghost towns

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The trail blazed by Daniel Boone through the Cumberland gap

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Wilderness road

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important law that guarantee the freedoms enjoyed in the states would also be present in the territories

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Northwest ordinance of 1787

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first major man made canal in the US

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Erie Canal

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Singers from Tennessee who introduced the spirituals to the northern states and to Europe

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The Fisk Jubilee Singers

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War that resulted mainly from the kidnapping of American soldiers on the high seas by the British

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The war of 1812

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The treaty that officially ended the war of 1812

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Treaty of Ghent

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The Spanish mission in San Antonio, Texas, where Texans and other Americans fought the Mexican army to the last man

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The Alamo

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Place where gold was found in California in 1848

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John Sutter's ranch

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The movement of the forty-niners westward

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The California gold rush

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Where did the Oregon trail begin?

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Independence, Missouri

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How long was the Oregon trail?

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Almost 2,000 miles long

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What was the importance of the Louisiana Purchase?

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It more than doubled the size of the united states

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Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas make up which territory?

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The Louisiana Purchase

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What was the importance of the Mexican Cession?

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Mexico accepted the Rio Grande as the border between Texas and Mexico

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California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Arizona , New Mexico, Wyoming, and Colorado make up which territory?

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The Mexican cession

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What was the purpose of the Gadsden Purchase?

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To build a railroad through the Southwest

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The southern parts of New Mexico and Arizona make up which territory?

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The Gadsden Purchase

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The states or parts of states formed from the Oregon Territory

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Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and part of Montana and Wyoming