Test 8 -Chapter 9 review and Map Mastery 12

Question 1

Who was the most famous pioneer of the colonial times?

Answer 1

Daniel Boone

Question 2

Who was known as “Father of American Missions”?

Answer 2

Adoniram Judson

Question 3

Who was known as “Father of Western African Missions”?

Answer 3

Lott Carey

Question 4

Who was one of the best-known circuit riding preachers?

Answer 4

Peter Cartwright

Question 5

Who was the fiery black preacher that ministered in Civil War hospitals?

Answer 5

John Jasper

Question 6

Who was the woman responsible for New York City’s first Sunday school program?

Answer 6

Catherine Ferguson

Question 7

Who was America’s first missionary to a foreign land?

Answer 7

George Liele

Question 8

Who was the man that wrote the first major American dictionary?

Answer 8

Noah Webster

Question 9

Who was the leader of the “haystack prayer meetings”?

Answer 9

Samuel J. Mills

Question 10

Who did Sacagawea act as a guide and interpreter for?

Answer 10

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

Question 11

Who was the first Baptist missionary to Japan?

Answer 11

Jonathan Goble

Question 12

What took place in 1803 that more than doubled the size of the United States?

Answer 12

Louisiana Purchase

Question 13

Commodore Matthew Perry was responsible for opening American trade with what country?

Answer 13

Japan

Question 14

What year did America declare war on England?

Answer 14

1812

Question 15

The Whitmans were the most famous missionaries to what state?

Answer 15

Oregon

Question 16

Who was responsible for the victory at the Battle of New Orleans?

Answer 16

Andrew Jackson

Question 17

General Sam Houston captured Santa Anna and the Mexican army at which battle?

Answer 17

Battle of San Jacinto

Question 18

What were empty, deserted towns called after gold miners left?

Answer 18

ghost towns

Question 19

What is the name of the trail blazed by Daniel Boone for pioneers headed West?

Answer 19

Wilderness Road

Question 20

Gold miners in California were called what?

Answer 20

Forty-niners

Question 21

What guaranteed the freedom of religion and protection to those settling in the Northwest Territory?

Answer 21

Northwest Ordinance

Question 22

The most heroic and best remembered battle in Texas’s struggle for independence was at the what?

Answer 22

Alamo

Question 23

Preachers who traveled from town to town preaching in areas that had no pastor were called what?

Answer 23

circuit-riding preachers

Question 24

What was the name of the treaty that officially ended the War of 1812?

Answer 24

Treaty of Ghent

Question 25

What is America’s greatest contribution to the field of music?

Answer 25

spiritual

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Fisk Jubilee Singers

Question 27

Who was the author of a children’s reading series used in America in the 1800’s?

Answer 27

William McGuffey

Question 28

What was the purchase that makes up the southern parts of the states of New Mexico and Arizona?

Answer 28

Gadsden Purchase

Question 29

One of the beloved hymn writers of the 1800’s

Answer 29

Isaac Watts

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

Who was the President responsible for obtaining the Louisiana Purchase?

Answer 31

Thomas Jefferson

Question 32

Know these locations

Answer 32

Ohio River, Gulf of Panama, Arkansas River, Angel Falls, Snake River, Gulf of Tehuantepec, Maderia River, Niagara Falls, Parana River, Labrador Sea

Question 33

How did a pioneer family prepare to move West? What routes might they take? What types of vehicles might they use for transportation?

Answer 33

Find these answers and be prepared to answer them in complete sentences