EDUCATION
This educator created the famous spelling book called The Blue-Backed Speller.
Answer: Who is Noah Webster?
This religious revival movement of the early 1800s was known by this name.
Answer: What is the Second Great Awakening?
This man is known as the “Father of Texas.”
Answer: Who is Stephen Austin?
This war was fought between the United States and Mexico from 1846–1848.
Answer: What is the Mexican War (Mexican-American War)?
This book helped standardize American spelling and reading in early schools.
Answer: What is The Blue-Backed Speller?
This was the name given to schools that trained teachers.
Answer: What is a Normal school?
The most famous camp meeting of the revival took place in this Kentucky location.
Answer: What is Cane Ridge, Kentucky?
This leader became the first president of Texas.
Answer: Who is Sam Houston?
This country won the Mexican War.
Answer: Who is the United States?
This term describes religious gatherings held outdoors with preaching and worship.
Answer: What is a camp meeting?
This series of textbooks became the most widely used schoolbooks in America.
Answer: What are McGuffey’s Readers?
This evangelist was most responsible for spreading the second nationwide revival.
Answer: Who is Charles G. Finney?
This U.S. state was the location of the Bear Flag Revolt.
Answer: What is California?
This treaty officially ended the Mexican War.
Answer: What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This person pioneered the Camp Meeting Revival movement.
Answer: Who is Charles G. Finney?
A popular 1800s learning activity where students competed to spell words correctly.
Answer: What is a spelling bee?
This missionary is known as the Father of the Western African Missions.
Answer: Who is Lott Carey?
This nickname was given to people who rushed to California in search of gold.
Answer: Who are the Forty-Niners?
This law required escaped enslaved people to be returned to their owners, even if they reached free states.
Answer: What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
Answer: What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
This educational reform focused on free public schooling for all children.
Answer: What is public education (common school movement)?
This man promoted the idea of public primary schools for all children and is called the father of public education.
Answer: Who is Horace Mann?
Missionaries brought these two positive contributions to Hawaii.
Answer: What are schools/education and Christianity/Bible teaching?
(accept literacy, churches, printing, or medical help)
In 1834, this general declared himself the military dictator of Mexico.
Answer: Who is Santa Anna?
This event symbolized California settlers declaring independence from Mexico.
Answer: What is the Bear Flag Revolt?
Answer: What is the Bear Flag Revolt?
Two goals of early missionary efforts were spreading this faith and teaching this life skill.
Answer: What are Christianity and literacy/education?