founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church
Richard Allen
“Father of American Missions”
Adoniram Judson
started New York City’s first Sunday school
Catherine Ferguson
improved the treatment of the mentally ill
Dorothea L. Dix
founded New York City’s first settlement house
Phoebe Palmer
opened Japan to trade
Matthew Perry
discovered the Hawaiian Islands in 1778
James Cook
became the first Baptist missionary to Japan
Jonathan Goble
accompanied Lott Carey to Liberia
Colin Teague
united all but two of the Hawaiian Islands under his rule
Kamehameha I
“Father of Western African Missions”
Lott Carey
opened Japan to missionaries
Townshend Harris
the leading evangelist of the Second Great Awakening
Charles Finney
great Methodist circuit rider who preached the gospel in Kentucky and Tennessee for 20 years
Peter Cartwright
pioneered the camp meeting revival
James McGready
What did the Transcendentalists worship
nature
the first state to outlaw the use of liquor
Maine
the society organized in 1816 to distribute Bible to frontier families
American Bible Society
What did the American Temperance Union work to stop?
the consumption and sale of alcohol
the Indian tribe that experienced hardship and suffering on the “Trail of Tears”
Cherokee
the name of the socialist community founded by Robert Owen
New Harmony
What did Horace Mann work to achieve?
tax-supported public schools
What is William McGuffey best remembered for?
his reading textbooks
Wrote Moby Dick
Herman Melville
Wrote the Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper
Wrote “Snowbound”
John Greenleaf Whittier
Wrote The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wrote The Song of Hiawatha
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Wrote “Rip Van Winkle”
Washington Irving
Wrote “Old Ironsides”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Wrote Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
Wrote “The Tell-Tale Heart”
Edgar Allan Poe
famous for his dictionaries and the Blue-Backed Speller
Noah Webster
book written by transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau
Walden
one of the most popular learning techniques in the town schools
spelling bee
a good example of one of James Fenimore Cooper’s Hudson River tales
Leatherstocking
wrote over two hundred songs, including “Swanee River,” “My Old Kentucky Home,” and “Oh! Susanna.”
Stephen Foster
the name for counterfeit church groups which teach salvation by works rather than salvation by grace through faith
cults
the name of the Cherokee Indian who invented a written language for his people
Sequoya
America’s greatest contribution to the field of music
the spiritual
the name for evangelists who rode regular routes on horseback, conducting church services on the frontier
circuit riders
the term for the group of American poets who emphasized family values and patriotism in their works
Schoolroom Poets (or Fireside Poets)
the Methodist evangelist that John Wesley went to America in 1771 to establish churches and Bible studies on the frontier
Francis Asbury
Know these locations on a map of the central United STates
Missouri Mississippi River Lake Michigan Arkansas North Dakota Missouri River Indiana
Discuss the philosophy of education in the 1800s. What role did parents play in the educational system?
Early schools preached traditional education, which passes the accumulated knowledge of the past to the present generation. Parents controlled the curriculum, instruction, and overall operation of local schools.