Flashcards in 6th Grade Test 8 Ch 9 Deck (47)
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The "Father of American Missions"
Adoniram Judson
1
One of the best-known circuit-riding preachers
Peter Cartwright
2
The woman responsible for New York City's first Sunday school program
Catherine Ferguson
3
The man who wrote the first major American dictionary
Noah Webster
4
Sacajawea acted as their guide and interpreter
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
5
The leader of the "haystack prayer meetings"
Samuel J. Mills
6
America's first missionary to a foreign land
George Liele
7
Fiery black preacher who ministered in Civil War hospitals
John Jasper
8
"Father of Western African Missions"
Lott Carey
9
The most famous pioneer of the colonial times
Daniel Boone
10
This purchase of 1803 more than doubled the size of United States
The Louisiana Purchase
11
One reason America declared war on England in this year was because the English were kidnapping American sailors
1812
12
The American general responsible for the victory at the battle of New Orleans
Andrew Jackson
13
General Sam Houston captured Santa Anna and the Mexican army at the battle of....
San Jacinto
14
The Whitman's where the most famous missionaries to this state
Oregon
15
Commodore Matthew Perry was responsible for opening American trade with this country
Japan
16
He was the first Baptist missionary to Japan
Jonathan Goble
17
The trail blazed by Daniel Boone for pioneers headed west
Wilderness Road
18
Freedom of religion and protection to those settling in the Northwest Territory was guaranteed by this
The Northwest Ordinance
19
The first major man-made canal in the United States
Erie Canal
20
Preachers who traveled from town to town preaching in areas that had no pastor were called this
Circuit riding preachers
21
America's greatest contribution to the field of music is this type of music
Spiritual
22
The group that introduced the spiritual to the northern states and Europe was this group
Fisk Jubilee Singers
23
The treaty that officially ended the war of 1812
Treaty of Ghent
24
The most heroic and best remembered battle in Texas's struggle for independence was this
Battle of the Alamo
25
Gold miners in the California gold rush were called this
Forty-niners
26
Empty deserted towns left after gold miners had moved on are called this
Ghost towns
27
The author of a children's reading series used in America in the 1800s
William Macguffey
28
One of the beloved hymn writers of the 1800s
Isaac Watts
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