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1
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founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church

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Richard Allen

2
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“Father of American Missions”

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Adoniram Judson

3
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started New York City’s first Sunday school

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Catherine Ferguson

4
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improved the treatment of the mentally ill

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Dorothea L. Dix

5
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founded New York City’s first settlement house

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Phoebe Palmer

6
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opened Japan to trade

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Matthew Perry

7
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discovered the Hawaiian Islands in 1778

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James Cook

8
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became the first Baptist missionary to Japan

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Jonathan Goble

9
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accompanied Lott Carey to Liberia

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Colin Teague

10
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united all but two of the Hawaiian Islands under his rule

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Kamehameha I

11
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“Father of Western African Missions”

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Lott Carey

12
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opened Japan to missionaries

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Townshend Harris

13
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the leading evangelist of the Second Great Awakening

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Charles Finney

14
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great Methodist circuit rider who preached the gospel in Kentucky and Tennessee for 20 years

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Peter Cartwright

15
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pioneered the camp meeting revival

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James McGready

16
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What did the Transcendentalists worship

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nature

17
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the first state to outlaw the use of liquor

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Maine

18
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the society organized in 1816 to distribute Bible to frontier families

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American Bible Society

19
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What did the American Temperance Union work to stop?

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the consumption and sale of alcohol

20
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the Indian tribe that experienced hardship and suffering on the “Trail of Tears”

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Cherokee

21
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the name of the socialist community founded by Robert Owen

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New Harmony

22
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What did Horace Mann work to achieve?

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tax-supported public schools

23
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What is William McGuffey best remembered for?

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his reading textbooks

24
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Wrote Moby Dick

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Herman Melville

25
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Wrote the Last of the Mohicans

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James Fenimore Cooper

26
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Wrote “Snowbound”

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John Greenleaf Whittier

27
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Wrote The Scarlet Letter

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

28
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Wrote The Song of Hiawatha

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

29
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Wrote “Rip Van Winkle”

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Washington Irving

30
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Wrote “Old Ironsides”

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

31
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Wrote Great Expectations

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Charles Dickens

32
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Wrote “The Tell-Tale Heart”

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Edgar Allan Poe

33
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famous for his dictionaries and the Blue-Backed Speller

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Noah Webster

34
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book written by transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau

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Walden

35
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one of the most popular learning techniques in the town schools

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spelling bee

36
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a good example of one of James Fenimore Cooper’s Hudson River tales

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Leatherstocking

37
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wrote over two hundred songs, including “Swanee River,” “My Old Kentucky Home,” and “Oh! Susanna.”

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Stephen Foster

38
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the name for counterfeit church groups which teach salvation by works rather than salvation by grace through faith

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cults

39
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the name of the Cherokee Indian who invented a written language for his people

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Sequoya

40
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America’s greatest contribution to the field of music

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the spiritual

41
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the name for evangelists who rode regular routes on horseback, conducting church services on the frontier

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circuit riders

42
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the term for the group of American poets who emphasized family values and patriotism in their works

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Schoolroom Poets (or Fireside Poets)

43
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the Methodist evangelist that John Wesley went to America in 1771 to establish churches and Bible studies on the frontier

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Francis Asbury

44
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Know these locations on a map of the central United STates

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Missouri
Mississippi River
Lake Michigan
Arkansas
North Dakota
Missouri River
Indiana
45
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Discuss the philosophy of education in the 1800s. What role did parents play in the educational system?

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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.