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Card Test 79-88
Question | Answer |
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What was an agreement made by the Pilgrims? | Mayflower Compact |
Made on the Mayflower in 1620 | Mayflower Compact |
When did the Pilgrims agree on the Mayflower Compact? | Just before they landed near Plymouth Rock |
Bound them to live a civil society according to their own laws | Mayflower Compact |
remained until the colony was absorbed into Massachusetts | Mayflower Compact |
The Mayflower Compact was the first written what in America? | Constitution |
Who is the author of McGuffey's Readers? | William H. McGuffey |
What was William H. McGuffey job? | A midwestern teacher |
series of books to teach reading to schoolchildren | McGuffey's Readers |
Series began to appear in the 1830s | McGuffey's Readers |
What was a popular slogan of the 1840s? | Manifest Destiny |
What was used by people who believed that the US was destined to expand across NA to the Pacific Ocean? | Manifest Destiny |
This idea was used to justify the acquisition of Oregon and large parts of the South west, including CA | Manifest Destiny |
Who was a scholar and religious leader? | Cotton Mather |
Who was a prominent Massachusetts Puritan? | Cotton Mather |
He urged the supression of witchcraft. | Cotton Mather |
He supported the Salem Witch Trials. | Cotton Mather |
Who was a public Official? | John Marshall |
Who was a Federalist that served as a chief justice of the Supreme Court from 1801-1835? | John Marshall |
His interpretations of the Constitution served to strengthen the power of the Court. | John Marshall |
Who was a legislator and educational reformer? | Horace Mann |
Where did Horace Mann live? | Massachusetts |
What is Horace Mann's nickname? | father of American public schools |
worked to increase the availability and quality of free public schools | Horace Mann |