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Test Date: 1/16/2014
1. Adoniram Judson is the “Father of American Missions.”
2. Peter Cartwright was one of the best-known circuit-riding preachers.
3. Catherine Ferguson was the woman responsible for New York City’s first Sunday school program.
4. Noah Webster was the man who wrote the first major American dictionary.
5. Sacagawea acted as the guide and interpreter of Meriweather Lewis and William Clark.
6. Samuel J. Mills was the leader of the “haystack prayer meetings.”
7. George Liele was America’s first missionary to a foreign land.
8. John Jasper was the fiery black preacher who ministered in Civil War hospitals.
9. Lott Carey is known as the “Father of Western African Missions.”
10. Daniel Boone is the most famous pioneer of the colonial times.
12. The American general responsible for the victory at the Battle of New Orleans was Andrew
Jackson.
13. General Sam Houston captured Santa Anna and the Mexican army at the battle of San
Jacinto.
14. The Whitman’s were the most famous missionaries to Oregon.
15. Commodore Matthew Perry was responsible for opening American trade with Japan.
16. Jonathan Goble was the first Baptist missionary to Japan.
17. Thomas Jefferson was the President responsible for obtaining the Louisiana Purchase.
18. Isaac Watts was one of the beloved hymn writers of the 1800’s.
19. William McGuffey was the author of a children’s reading series used in America in the
1800’s.
20. The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 more than doubled the size of the U.S.
21. One reason America declared war on England in 1812 was because the English were kidnapping American sailors.
22. The Wilderness Road was the trail blazed by Daniel Boone for pioneers headed West.
23. The Northwest Ordinance was guaranteed Freedom of Religion and protection to those settling in the Northwest Territory.
24. The Erie Canal was the first major man-made canal in the U.S.
25. Circuit-riding preachers were preachers who traveled from town to town preaching in areas that had no pastor.
26. America’s greatest contribution to the field of music is the spiritual.
27. The Fisk Jubilee Singers was the group that introduced the spiritual to the northern states and
Europe.
28 The treaty of Ghent was the treaty that officially ended the War of 1812.
29. The Alamo was the most heroic and best-remembered battle in Texas’s struggle for independence.
30. Gold miners in the California Gold Rush were called forty-niners.
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31. Ghost towns were empty, deserted towns left after gold miners had moved on.
32. The Mexican Cession was the purchase that makes up the states of California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming and Colorado.
33. The Gadsden Purchase was the purchase that makes up the southern parts of the states of
New Mexico and Arizona.
a. Ohio River f. Gulf of Tehuantepec b. Gulf of Panama c. Arkansas River d. Angel Falls e. Snake River g. Madeira River h. Niagara Falls i. Parana River j. Labrador Sea
a. How did a pioneer family prepare to move West? b. What routes might they take? c. What type of vehicles might they use for transportation?
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