| A | B |
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| Daniel Boone | famous pioneer |
| pioneer | a person who prepares the way for others |
| Noah Webster | author of the Blue Backed Speller |
| McGuffey's Readers | series of textbooks in the 1800's |
| Erie Canal | first major man-made canal in the U.S. |
| Northwest Ordinance | laws for the frontier |
| circuit-riding preachers | traveled to towns to preach |
| Peter Cartwright | famous circuit-rider |
| George Liele | America's first missionary to a foreign land |
| Samuel J. Mills | known for haystack prayer meeting |
| Adoniram Judson | Father of American Missions |
| Isaac Watts | wrote English hymns |
| Lott Carey | Father of Western African Missions |
| John Jasper | ministered to wounded soldiers |
| Catherine Ferguson | began first American Sunday School |
| Fisk Jubilee Singers | introduced spirituals to the north and Europe |
| spirituals | slave songs |
| Louisiana Purchase | more than doubled the size of the U.S. |
| Thomas Jefferson | 3rd president |
| Lewis and Clark | explorers of Louisiana territory |
| War of 1812 | between the U.S. and England |
| General Andrew Jackson | defeated British in Battle of New Orleans |
| Sacajawea | guide for Lewis and Clark |
| $15 million | price of the Louisiana Purchase |
| Battle of San Jacinto | when Texas became a new nation |
| Sam Houston | captured Santa Anna and Mexican army |
| Santa Anna | dictator of Mexico |
| Davey Crockett | said, "Be always sure you're right, then go ahead." |
| Mexican Cession | purchase of California, Nevada, Utah, and others |
| Gadsden Purchase | land purchased to build a railroad through the SW |
| Mexican War | resulted in Rio Grande as border between Texas and Mexico |
| Alamo | old Spanish mission building |
| Remember the Alamo | battle cry for Texas independence |
| Forty Niners | gold miners of 1849 |
| California Gold Rush | the movement of 49ers westward |
| Ghost towns | deserted towns where gold miners used to live |
| Marcus and Narcissa Whitman | missionaries to Oregon |
| Commodore Matthew Perry | opened Japan for trade with the U.S. |
| Jonathan Goble | first Baptist missionary to Japan |
