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Gr 6 Hist Ch 9
Gr 6 History
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Daniel Boone | most famous pioneer of colonial times; cleared the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap |
| Noah Webster | wrote the first major American dictionary |
| William McGuffey | wrote a series of textbooks in the 1800s known as the McGuffey readers |
| Francis Asbury | Methodist evangelist who established circuit-riding preachers |
| George Liele | America's first missionary to a foreign land |
| Adoniram Judson | "Father of American Missions" |
| Lott Carey | missionary to and later governor of Liberia; "Father of Western African Missions" |
| Thomas Jefferson | third President of the U.S.; purchased Louisiana Purchase; sent Lewis and Clark to explore it |
| Meriwether Lewis and William Clark | commissioned by Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Territory |
| Sacagawea | Shoshone native who guided Lewis and Clark |
| James Marshall | ranch hand whose discovery of gold led to the California Gold Rush |
| Dr. Marcus and Narcissa Whitman | most famous missionaries to Oregon |
| Commodore Matthew Perry | sent by President Fillmore with a fleet of navy ships to open Japan for trade |
| Jonathan Goble | U.S. Marine who later became first Baptist missionary to Japan |
| Townsend Harris | first U.S. diplomatic representative to Japan; his Harris Treaty opened Japan for trade and to Christian missionaries |
| John Wesley | English founder of the Methodist church |
| Peter Cartwright | one of the most famous circuit riders |
| Richard Allen | founder of the first black denomination |
| Isaac Watts & Charles Wesley | two English hymn writers whose words were popular during the second Great Awakening |
| Samuel J. Mills | a founder of the American Bible Society and leader of the "haystack prayer meeting" |
| Lemuel Haynes | minuteman, patriot, preacher |
| John Jasper | preached to wounded Confederate soldiers and to the Virginia General Assembly |
| Catherine Ferguson | started New York City's first Sunday school |
| James Madison | President during the War of 1812 |
| Dolly Madison | First Lady who saved important papers and Washington's portrait |
| Francis Scott Key | wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| General Andrew Jackson | defeated the British at the Battle of New Orleans |
| James Monroe | President who purchased Florida from Spain |
| General Santa Anna | dictator of Mexico who led Mexican forces at the Alamo |
| Davy Crockett | frontiersman from Tennessee who helped the Texans fight at the Alamo |
| General Sam Houston | defeated Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto and later became president of Texas |
| pioneer | a person who does something first, preparing the way for others |
| flatboat | long boat with a flat bottom |
| circuit-riding preacher | a preacher who traveled from town to town preaching wherever there was no pastor and wherever churches needed a revival |
| camp meeting | kept the spirit of revival alive in America; held in tents |
| spirituals | America's greatest contribution to the field of music |
| "forty-niners" | nickname for the miners who took part in the California Gold Rush |
| ghost towns | towns that became empty and deserted after gold miners moved on |
| Wilderness Road | the trail blazed by Daniel Boone through the Cumberland Gap |
| Northwest Ordinance of 1787 | the important law guaranteed that freedoms enjoyed in the states would also be present in the territories |
| Erie Canal | first major man-made canal in the U.S. |
| Fisk Jubilee Singers | singers from Tennessee who introduced the spirituals to the northern states and to Europe |
| War of 1812 | war which resulted mainly from the kidnapping of American sailors on the high seas by the British |
| Treaty of Ghent | treaty which officially ended the War of 1812 |
| the Alamo | the Spanish mission in San Antonio, Texas, where Texans and other Americans fought the Mexican army to the last man |
| John Sutter's ranch | the place where gold was found in California in 1848 |
| California Gold Rush | the movement of the forty-niners westward in 1849 when gold was discovered in California in 1848 |
| Independence, Missouri | town in which the Oregon Trail began |
| 2,000 miles long | how long the Oregon Trail was |
| Louisiana Purchase | more than doubled the size of the United states |
| Mexican Cession | land ceded to the U.S. by Mexico at the end of the Mexican War |
| Gadsden Purchase | a strip of land purchased from Mexico in order to build a railroad through the Southwest |
| Oregon Territory | originally land which was shared by Britain and the U.S. until a boundary was set in 1846 establishing the present border between the U.S. and Canada |
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