History Test 6
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- William Bradford
- wrote plymouth plantation
- Richard Allen
- founded the african methodist episcopal church in 1787
- Herman Melville
- wrote moby dick
- French and Indian War
- also known as the seven years war
- Samuel Clemens
- wrote huckleberry finn and the adventures of tom sawyer
- Texas
- also known as the lone star republic
- William Travis
- commanding officer of the Alamo
- Inauguration
- ceremony for presidents going into office
- early colonial governments
- Royal, proprietary, and self-governing were all types of what government?
- Battle of San Jacinto
- texas won its war for independence
- Zachary Taylor
- "old rough and ready"
- Jebediah Smith
- said that his bible and rifle are his two best friends
- William Becknell
- father of santa fe trail
- Quartering Act
- people were forced to shelter soldiers and give them food
- Lott Carey
- father of western african missions
- Sam Houston
- the first president of texas
- Amerigo Vespucci
- the first person to realize a new continent had been discovered
- to seek better family opportunities
- most americans moved west to......?
- Townshend Harris Treaty
- a treaty that opened japan to missionaries
- Matthew Maury
- "pathfinder of the sea"
- Matthew Perry
- opened japan to trade
- Louisiana Purchase
- the u.s. more than doubled in size
- Santa Anna
- he declared himself dictator over all of mexico
- Patrick Henry
- said "give me liberty, or give me death"
- Daniel Webster
- said "liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseperable"
- Daniel Boone
- explored kentucky
- John Cabot
- 1st to set foot on America
- William McGuffy
- known for his textbooks
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- promoted transcendentalism
- Daniel Boone
- blazed the wilderness road
- Jonathan Goble
- invented the rickshaw
- Prairie Schooner
- the name of the covered wagons that people on the oregon trail were using
- James Fenimore Cooper
- wrote the last of the mohicans, leatherstocking tales, and deerslayer
- Jonathan Goble
- 1st missionary to japan
- William Henry Harrison
- nickname is old tippacanoe
- Ole Deluder Satan Act
- children were ordered to read the bible
- france
- we got the louisianna purchase from what country?
- Massachusetts Bay
- also known as the city upon a hill
- Great Awakening
- great revival that went across america in the 1700's
- James Cook
- discovered hawaii
- Francis Cabot Lowell
- improved the power loom
- georgia
- a refuge for debtor prisoners to work and pay off their debts
- Veracruz
- 1st amphibious war
- Stephen Austen
- "father of texas"
- Francis Scott Key
- wrote the star spangled banner
- Cyrus McCormick
- invented the mechanical reaper
- John McLoughlin
- father of oregon
- Ben Franklin
- wrote the poor richard's almanac
- Alamo
- davy crockett and jim bowie died
- Noah Webster
- introduced the blue-backed speller and wrote the 1st dictionary of american language
- Independence rock
- a dome of granit named because most wagon trains reached the place in july
- Cherokee Indians
- trail of tears
- they thought he was letting the indian children die
- why did the cayuse indians kill marcus whitman
- Jamestown
- the 1st permanent english settlement in the new world
- Peter Cartwright
- famous circuit rider
- John Deere
- invented the steel plow
- Tea Tax
- all acts were canceled except for this one
- Independence, Missouri
- long journey of wagon trains started here
- Martin Luther
- nailed the ninety five theses to every church door in whittenburgh
- Hernando Cortes
- conquered the aztec indians
- Plymouth
- the place where the pilgrims 1st landed
- Mercantilism
- belief that colonies hold up their mother country
- Great Migration
- largest wagon train ever to go west