AMERICAN MISSIONS
Father of American missions
Adoniram Judson
One of the best-known circuit-riding preachers
Peter Cartwright
What was the name of the trail blazed by Daniel Boone for pioneers headed west?
Wilderness Road
The most famous pioneer of the colonial times
Daniel Boone
America’s first missionary to a foreign land
George Liele
Who were preachers who traveled town to town preaching in areas that had no pastor?
Circuit-riding preachers
What purchase of 1803 more than doubled the size of the United States?
Louisiana
What was the most heroic and best remembered battle in Texas’s struggle for independence?
The Alamo
Sacagawea acted as their guide and interpreter
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
Commodore Matthew Perry was responsible for opening American trade with what country?
Japan
Father of West African missions
Lott Carey
Fiery Black preacher who ministered in Civil War hospitals
John Jasper
Who was the president responsible for obtaining the Louisiana Purchase?
Thomas Jefferson
In what year did America declare war on England due to the English kidnapping American soldiers?
1812
Gold miners in the California Gold Rush were called what?
Forty-niners
The man who wrote the first major American dictionary
Noah Webster
Leader of the Haystack Prayer Meetings
Samuel J. Mills
Who was one of the beloved hymn writers of the 1800s?
Isaac Watts
What purchase makes up the states of California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Colorado?
Mexican Cession
What treaty officially ended the War of 1812?
The Treaty of Ghent
What was the name for empty, deserted towns left after gold miners had moved on?
Ghost towns
Who was the author of a children’s reading series used in America in the 1800s?
William McGuffey
The Whitmans were most famous missionaries to what state?
Oregon
What was America’s greatest contribution to the field of music?
Spiritual
What purchase makes up the southern parts of the states of New Mexico and Arizona?
The Gadsden Purchase
Which American general is responsible for the victory at the Battle of New Orleans?
Andrew Jackson
What was the first major man-made canal in the United States?
The Erie Canal
Who was the first Baptist missionary to Japan?
Jonathan Goble
What group introduced the spiritual to the northern states and Europe?
Fisk Jubilee Singers
Freedom of religion and protection to those settling in the Northwest Territory was guaranteed by what law?
Northwest Ordinance
General Sam Houston captured Santa Anna and the Mexican army at which battle?
San Jacinto
The woman responsible for New York City’s first Sunday school program
Catherine Ferguson