Terms
a person who is among those who first enter or settle a region, thus opening it for occupation and development by others
pioneer
English founder of the Methodist church
John Wesley
wrote the ''The Star-Spangle Banner''
Francis Scott Key
the purchase that doubled the size of the United States
Louisiana Purchase
the year Louisiana Purchase was made
1803
America’s greatest contribution to the field of music; is a genre of Christian music that is associated with African Americans
spirituals
minutemen, patriot and preacher
Lemuel Haynes
defeated the British at the Battle of New Orleans
General Andrew Jackson
Mexico ceded to the United States the land which makes up the present California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming and Colorado.
Mexican Cession
Second Great Awakening
1790s
empty deserted towns where no one lived
ghost towns
two popular hymn writers during the Second Great Awakening
Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley
dictator of Mexico who led the Mexican forces at the Alamo
General Santa Anna
the war between the British and the Americans in the year 1812
the War of 1812
Danie Boone blazes the Wilderness Road
1175
who rode regular routes, or circuits, preaching in areas that did not have a pastor
circuit-riding preachers
started New York's Sunday School
Catherine Ferguson
president who purchased Florida from Spain
James Monroe
the treaty that was signed in 1858 that opened Japan to Christian Missionaries
Harris Treaty
Treaty of Ghent
1814
a group of gold-miners who arrived in California in 1849
forty-niners
President during the War of 1812
James Madison
frontiersman from Tennessee who helped the Texans fight at the Alamo
Davy Crockett
Missionaries to Oregon
Dr. Marcus Whitman and Narcissa Whitman along with Eliza Spalding
California Gold Rush
1849