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wrote the first major American dictionary
Noah Webster
his discovery led to the California Gold Rush
James Marshall
leader of the "haystack prayer meeting"
Samuel J. Mills
Mexican dictator who led forces to the Alamo
General Santa Anna
Spanish mission in San Antonia, Texas where Americans fought the Mexican army to the last man
the Alamo
Methodist evangelist who established circuit-riding preachers
Francis Asbury
U.S. Marine who later became the first Baptist missionary to Japan
Jonathan Goble
preacher to wounded soldiers and the Virginia General Assembly
John Jasper
nickname for miners of the California Gold Rush
"forty-niners"
What officially ended the War of 1812
Treaty of Ghent
America's first missionary to a foreign land (Jamaica)
George Liele
his agreement opened Japan for trade and to Christian missionaries
Townsend Harris
founder of New York City's first Sunday School
Catherine Ferguson
helped the Texans fight at the Alamo
Davy Crockett
land ceded to the U.S. at the end of the Mexican War
Mexican Cession
missionary to Liberia; "Father of Western African Missions"
Lott Carey
most famous missionaries to Oregon (give both)
Marcus and Narcissa Whitman
President during the War of 1812
James Madison
defeated Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto
General Sam Houston
Where the Oregon Trail began (city and state)
Independence, Missouri
sent Lewis and Clark to explore the Louisiana Purchase
Thomas Jefferson
first U.S. representative to Japan
Townsend Harris
defeated the British at the Battle of New Orleans
General Andrew Jackson
President who purchased Florida from Spain
James Monroe
What territory belonged to both England and the United States before being added to the U.S.?
Oregon Territory