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| The Father of American Missions |
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| The most famous pioneer of colonial times. |
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| Wrote the first American Dictionary and his most famous book, The American Spelling Book, nicknamed the “Blue-Backed Speller”. |
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| The Great English founder of the Methodist Church---Sent a young Methodist, Francis Asbury, to America to establish churches and Bible Studies on the Frontier. |
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| One of the best known circuit riders---The famous circuit rider who preached the gospel to the frontier people of Tennessee and Kentucky. |
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| America’s first Missionary to a foreign land (Jamaica) and one of the first ordained Black preachers in America. |
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| Northwest Ordinance of 1787 |
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| The law Congress passed to provide government for the Northwest Territory |
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| The first major man-made canal in the United States. This canal connected Lake Erie in Ohio with the Hudson River. It allowed farmers to ship crops to the east and manufacturers to ship manufactured goods to the west. |
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| Issac Watts and Charles Wesley |
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| Two English hymn writers whose songs enjoyed great popularity in America.("Joy to the World" and "Hark!The Herald Angels Sing") |
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| The founder of the denomination, The African Methodist Episcopal Church (Bethel Church), which became the first black denomination in the United States. |
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| Former slave who became known as the Father of African Missions |
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| These are recognized as America's greatest contribution to the field of music. Some of the best loved are, "Swing Low, Sweet Chario", "Deep River", and "Go Down, Moses". |
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| Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota |
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| The states or parts of states which would be formed from the Northwest Territory. |
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| Slave preacher who knew committed much of the Scriptures to memory and ministered to wounded soldiers in Confederate hospitals during the Civil War. |
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| The woman said to have founded New York City's first Sunday school. |
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| A cleared narrow path cut by Daniel Boone and thirty strong men through thick forests and over the mountains through Cumberland Gap in Kentucky. |
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| People gathered together for a week to hear the gospel preached. They would set up tents and live camp style for the week. |
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| His main ministry in life was to help others become missionaries. He established the American Bible Society. |
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| Black slave who preached in Civil War Hospitals |
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| Louisiana Territory and the Louisiana Purchase |
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| The name of the land purchase between the United States and France which more than doubled the size of the United States. |
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| Meriwether Lewis and William Clark (Lewis and Clark) |
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| two explorers President Jefferson sent to explore the Louisiana Territory |
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| Shoshone Indian guide who helped these Lewis and Clark explore the Louisiana Territory |
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| The war fought in the early 1800s between the Americans and the British |
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The Gadsden Purchase
(land was part of where now New Mexico and Arizona are) |
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| The strip of land purchased by the United States from Mexico to be used for a railroad. |
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| Who wrote our national anthem and what circumstances inspired him? |
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Francis Scott Key, while watching the battle on Fort McHenry (in Baltimore) during the War of 1812 with the British
Wrote national anthem, "The Star-Spangeld Banner" at the sight of our war tattered flag... |
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| 5th President who convinced Spain to turn over Florida to the United States |
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| Ended the War of 1812 with the British in 814 (the war lasted 2 years) |
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| Life Motto of Davy Crockett |
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| "Be always sure you're right --- then go ahead!" |
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| Battle rallying cry to get men prepared to fight Mexican General Santa Anna since he had killed Davy Crocket and 186 other men at the Alamo(an old Spanish Mission in Texas) |
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| Black Americans from Tennessee who introduced the Spirtuals songs to the Northern States and Europe in 1871 |
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| diplomatic representative of the United States sent to Japan to conduct trade. He held Bible studies with some of the Japanese--- In 1858, the Harris Treaty opened Japan to Christian missionaries |
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| first Baptist missionary to Japan |
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| Gold seekers who arrived in California in 1849 |
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| included present day Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and part of Montana and Wyoming |
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| US Naval Officer sent to open Japan for trade with the United States. He conducted the first Protestant worship service in Japan. |
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| Dr. Marcus Whitman and his wife Narcissa |
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the most famous missionaries to Oregon
Narcissa and Eliza Spalding another missionary woman were the first white women to travel west of the Rockies |
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| The Great Migration and the Oregon Trail |
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| Dr. Marcus Whitman led nearly 1,000 pioneers safely to Oregon called the Great Migration |
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| 2,000 miles long trip from Independence, Missouri to Oregon through wilderness and mountains - pioneers grouped together to form wagon trains to cross the Oregon Trail |
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| empty, deserted towns after miners left because they couldn't find gold |
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| The town where the Oregon Trail started. Pioneers gathered and formed wagon trails to go to Oregon. |
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| 1848, James Marshall a ranch hand on John Sutter's ranch in California discovered gold. Large numbers of people came to California looking for gold - the miners were called "forty-niners" because they came in 1949. |
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| President of the United States during the Mexican War in 1846. After the war, Mexico accepted the Rio Grande river as the border between Texas and Mexico. |
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| At the end of the Mexican war, Mexico ceded(agreed to give) a large area of land that became California, Nevada,Utah, and parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Colorado. In return the US agreed to pay Mexico 15 million for the land. |
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| Mexican dictator that had complete control of Mexico. He led an army into Texas to bring American settlers in Texas under his rule. He killed Davy Crocket and 187 other men at the Battle of the Alamo. |
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| Led Texans in the Battle of San Jacinto and captured Mexican dictator, San Jacinto. He rallied his soldiers with the cry,"remember the Alamo" |
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| Battle where Texan General Sam Houston captured Mexican dictator, General Santa Anna, who killed pioneers at the Alamo. |
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| First president of the Independent state of Texas before it joined the Union |
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| defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans (during the war of 1812) |
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interpreter for Commodore Matthew Perry in his trip to Japan
He was one of the Missionaries who tried to return some shipwrecked Japanese to Japan earlier and had learned Japanese from them |
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