Important Words
Who is a person who travels into an unknown land to settle there?
Pioneer
Who killed Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
What was the name of the trail that Daniel Boone blazed to Kentucky?
Wilderness Road
What did Noah Webster become after college?
Teacher
What did Grace Bedell think Abe should grow?
Beard
What is open, free land where few people have settled?
Frontier
What was the name of the northern states during the Civil War?
Union
What settlement in Kentucky was named after Daniel Boone?
Boonesborough
What war was going on when Noah Webster was in college?
War for Independence
What state was Abe born in?
Kentucky
What is a textbook for young children?
Primer
What was the name of the Southern states during the Civil War?
Confederate States of America
Which man bought Kentucky from the Cherokee Indians?
Colonel Richard Henderson
What college did he want to go to?
Yale College
What was the name of Abe's famous, short speech?
Gettysburg Address
What war was fought between the North and the South?
Civil War
Who was the president of the Southern States?
Jefferson Davis
Which tribe of Native Americans sold Kentucky?
Cherokee
What was the nickname for the American Spelling Book?
What did the Thirteenth Ammendment make illegal?
slavery
What day is the president sworn into office?
Inauguration Day
What document did Abraham Lincoln write to free the slaves?
Emancipation Proclamation
Who won the French and Indian War?
British
Why did Noah need to write American books and an American dictionary?
They were free from England.
Postmaster, soldier, farmer, lawyer, storekeeper