Cool Historical People
Who was the best-known evangelist of the Second-Great Awakening?
Charles Finney
Who was the first elected president of the Republic of Texas?
Sam Houston
Who used the South Pass into California?
Jedediah Smith
The Oregon trail started where in Missouri?
Independence
The area of land given to the United states after the Mexican war was?
Mexican Cession
Who wrote The Scarlett Letter?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
What group of evangelists traveled on horseback to conduct services on the frontier?
Circuit Riders
The 1st major amphibious landing of American military forces led by?
Gen. Winfield Scott
The final battle for the independence of Texas took place where?
San Jacinto
What was the name of the poets that emphasized family values and patriotism in their work?
Fireside Poets
Who was the Father of American Short Stories?
Washington Irving
In what region did American settlers lead the Bear Flag Revolt against Mexico?
California
The first missionary to respond to the native Americans appeal for biblical instruction and Oregon?
Jason Lee
Steven Austin established the very first large American settlement in?
Texas
The 1st state university to begin operating?
North Carolina
Who discovered a pass through the Sierra Neveda?
James Beckwourth
Whose presidential campaign had the slogan "Fifty-four Forty or Fight”?
James Polk
The Cherokee man who developed a written language for his own people?
Sequoya
The 1st state to outlaw the use of alcohol?
Maine
The type of education that passes on the knowledge of the past to the new generation is what kind of education?
Traditional
Founder of Mormonism?
Jospeh Smith
What was the name given to Texas after independence was declared?
Lone Star Republic
Leader of the circuit riders in New England?
Francis Asbury
What African nation did Lott Carey & Colin Teague serve as missionaries?
Liberia
Two missionaries that accompanied the great migration to Oregon were Henry Spalding and?
Marcus Whitman