History Test 5

Question 1

One of the greatest Methodist circuit riders who accepted Christ at a camp meeting in Kentucky ?

Answer 1

Peter Cartwright

Question 2

American lawyer and lecturer known as the Great Agnostic who was one of the most outspoken proponents of Darwinism and religious unbelief?

Answer 2

Robert Green Ingersoll

Question 3

Advocate who worked to improve the treatment of people with mental illness ?

Answer 3

Dorothea L. Dix

Question 4

founder of the first settlement house in New York City called the Five Points Mission?

Answer 4

Phoebe Palmer

Question 5

Social reformer who joined the women’s rights movement in 1851 and lectured in many northern stages; especially concerned with women’s suffrage?

Answer 5

Susan B. Anthony

Question 6

social reformer who campaigned for social, political, and economic equality for women and helped organize the first women’s rights convention in 1848 at Seneca Falls; especially concerned with women’s suffrage?

Answer 6

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott

Question 7

Black American woman who started New York City’s first Sunday school program?

Answer 7

Catherine Ferguson

Question 8

one of the American Sunday School Union’s greatest Sunday school missionary who founded more than 1,300 Sunday schools in the Mississippi Valley?

Answer 8

Stephen Paxson

Question 9

Teacher and lecturer who founded the first lyceum in Millbury, Connecticut, in 1826?

Answer 9

Josiah Holbrook

Question 10

Fireside poet who wrote many poems, including longer and narrative poems, and received worldwide recognition as a creative genius; only American poet honored in Westminister Abbey?

Answer 10

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Question 11

Fireside poet who grew up as a Quaker and expressed a deep Christian faith in all his poems?

Answer 11

John Greenleaf Whittier

Question 12

Fireside poet who was also an essayist and medical doctor and is noted for his patriotic verse and good common sense?

Answer 12

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Question 13

Fireside poet who distinguished himself not only through powerful patriotic verse, but also through work in foreign diplomacy, law, and linguistics?

Answer 13

James Russel Lowell

Question 14

Author of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “ Rip Van Winkle”; Father of American Short Story?

Answer 14

Washington Irving

Question 15

Author of “The Pilot” and “The Leatherstocking Tales”; is often considered to have written the first truly American novel?

Answer 15

James Fenimore Cooper

Question 16

Author of many excellent works of fiction including “The House of Seven Gables” and “The Scarlet Letter”?

Answer 16

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question 17

Unitarian minister and famous essayist who developed American transcendentalism?

Answer 17

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 18

Follower of Emerson who spent two years communing with nature at Waldon Pond; author of Walden?

Answer 18

Henry David Thoreau

Question 19

Transcendentalist author and poet known for his poems about the energy and hopes of the American worker as well as his poems about nature?

Answer 19

Walt Whitman

Question 20

Owner of the “New York Herald”?

Answer 20

James Gordon Bennet

Question 21

Owner of the “New York Tribune”?

Answer 21

Horace Greeley

Question 22

music editor who carried on the tradition of the singing school?

Answer 22

Lowell Mason

Question 23

painter remembered for his many portraits of George Washington?

Answer 23

Gilbert Stuart

Question 24

artist who helped found the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia?

Answer 24

Charles Wilson Peale

Question 25

talented naturalist and artist who painted many of the birds of America’s forests?

Answer 25

John James Audubon

Question 26

one of the most talented and successful daguerreotypists in the North who is remembered for taking portraits of the various classes and cultures in society?

Answer 26

Augustus Washington

Question 27

Mexican dictator who fought against the Texians in their battle for independence from Mexico?

Answer 27

Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

Question 28

soldier and statesmen who was commander in chief of the Texas army; first elected president of Texas?

Answer 28

Sam Houston

Question 29

lieutenant colonel who was the commanding officer of the volunteers at the Alamo?

Answer 29

William B. Travis

Question 30

commanding officer of the volunteers at the Alamo?

Answer 30

James B. Bowie

Question 31

nationally famous Tennessee frontiersman , marksman, and former congressman who fought at the Alamo?

Answer 31

Davy Crockett

Question 32

man who was provided at detailed account of his journey on the Oregon Trail?

Answer 32

John B. Wyeth

Question 33

fur trader who discovered a mountain pass through the Sierra Nevada; only Black American man in the West during the early 1800s to have his life story published?

Answer 33

James Beckwourth

Question 34

captain known as the Father of the Santa Fe Trail?

Answer 34

William Becknell

Question 35

Methodist missionary in the Oregon Country who convinced other settlers to come to the Willamette Valley in Oregon?

Answer 35

Jason Lee

Question 36

diplomat sent to Mexico to negotiate the recognition of the independence of Texas?

Answer 36

John Slidell

Question 37

general who attacked the port city of Veracruz in the Mexican War?

Answer 37

Winfield Scott

Question 38

captain who led forces that assisted in California’s Bear Flag Revolt against Mexico?

Answer 38

John C. Fremont

Question 39

colonel who captured Santa Fe, New Mexico, and then marched to California to help American forces secure their position there?

Answer 39

Stephen W. Kearney

Question 40

Mormon leader who established the colony of Deseret in the Utah Territory?

Answer 40

Bringham Young

Question 41

battle in the Mexican War in which Zachary Taylor won decisively against overwhelming odds?

Answer 41

Battle of Buena Vista

Question 42

battle in which about 800 Texians defeated 1,500 Mexicans in only eighteen minutes during the conflict between Texas and México?

Answer 42

Battle of San Jacinto

Question 43

Texas entered Union

Answer 43

1845

Question 44

Oregon Treaty

Answer 44

1846

Question 45

Mexican War

Answer 45

1846-1848

Question 46

California gold rush

Answer 46

1849