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Am Hist Test 4
Chapters 11, 12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the name for counterfeit church groups which teach salvation by works rather than salvation by grace through faith? | Cults |
| Who sent Francis Asbury to America in 1771 to establish churches & Bible studies on the Frontier? | John Wesley |
| Author of Moby Dick | Herman Melville |
| Wrote Last of the Mohicans | James Fenimore Cooper |
| Wrote many patriotic poems including "Old Ironsides" | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| A fireside poet, wrote "Song of Hiawatha" | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Famous macabre short-story author, including "Tell-Tale Heart" | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Wrote short stories set in the Adirondacks, like "Rip van Winkle" | Washington Irving |
| Mississippi riverboat pilot turned author, Samuel Clemens wrote Adventures of Tom Sawyer under this pen name. | Mark Twain |
| Colonial author of patriotic pamphlet, Common Sense | Thomas Paine |
| Wrote Blue-Backed Speller | Noah Webster |
| Poet who wrote "Snowbound" | John Greenleaf Whittier |
| Writer of Poor Richard's Almanac | Ben Franklin |
| Author of the school reader series, McGuffey's Readers, used for many generations | William McGuffey |
| poet known for folk songs like "My Old Kentucky Home" | Stephen Foster |
| What book did William Bradford write? | Of Plymouth Plantation |
| The Scarlet Letter is written by what New England author? | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Who discovered the Hawaiin islands? | Captain James Cook |
| Who promoted transcendentalism? | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| What naval officer opened Japan to trade with America? | Commodore Matthew Perry |
| Who was the first Baptist missionary to Japan? | Jonathan Goble |
| What mode of transportation, symbolic of Japan, was actually invented by an American missionary to Japan? | the rickshaw |
| Who was the father of American Missions? | Adoniram Judson |
| Where did Adoniram Judson go to share the gospel with others? | Burma |
| Who worked to improve the treatment of the mentally ill? | Dorothea Dix |
| Who was the leading evangelist of the Second Great Awakening? | Charles Finney |
| Who was a Methodist circuit riding preacher in Kentucky & Tennessee? | Peter Cartwright |
| What was organized in 1816 to distribute Bible to frontier families? | American Bible Society |
| Who founded New York City's first settlement house? | Phoebe Palmer |
| Who united most of the Hawaiian islands under his rule? | King Kamehameha I |
| What was America's greatest contribution to the field of music?` | The Negro spiritual |
| Name 2 women who helped organize the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, NY | Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott |
| What impact did the Second Great Awakening have on American society? | It brought about social reform to help the dis-advantaged, a need for personal temperance, an awareness of the equality of women to vote, and evangelism at home and abroad |
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