People 1
A scholar from Connecticut who wrote the first major American dictionary
Noah Webster
The two explorers President Jefferson sent to explore the Louisiana Territory.
Lewis and Clark
The first major man-made canal in the United States
Erie Canal
Gold seekers who arrived in California in 1849
forty niners
These two forms of transporation were used the most by families moving West
covered wagon
flatboat
She was a Shoshone Indian and helped with peaceful relations between Lewis and Clark and the Indians they encountered.
Sacagewea
The most famous pioneer of colonial times was who?
Daniel Boone
The war fought in the early 1800's between the American's and the British
War of 1812
This more than doubled the size of the United States
Louisiana Purchase
Who wrote the "Star Spangled Banner" after the British failed to capture Baltimore in the War of 1812?
Francis Scott Key
The Father of Western African Missions was who?
Lott Carey
____________________ was the home of America's first black Baptist congregation
Savannah
America's greatest contribution to the field of music
spirituals
The great English founder of the Methodist church
John Wesley
One of the best-known circuit riders
Peter Cartwright
The first region to be settled in the Northwest Territory
Ohio
This was an old Spanish mission where a famous battle took place between the U.S. and the Mexican army.
Alamo
He founded America's first black Baptist congregation
Andrew Bryan
America's first missionary to a foreign land
George Liele
The strip of land purchased by the United States from Mexico to be used for a railroad
Gadsden Purchase
The states or parts of states, which would be formed from the Northwest Territory
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota