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Francis Asbury | Methodist minister sent by John Wesley to America in 1771 to establish churches and Bible studies |
James McGready | pioneered the campmeeting revival |
Peter Cartwright | the great Methodist circuit rider that preached the gospel in KY and TN |
American Bible Society | organized in 1816 to distribute Bibles to frontier families |
Charles G Finney | leading evangelist of the Second Great Awakening |
Cherokee | the tribe that experienced hardship on the Trail of Tears |
Sequoya | Cherokee Indian who invented the written language for his people |
Richard Allen | founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church |
Negro spiritual | America's greatest contribution to the field of music |
Themselves | Who Transcendentalists worshipped |
Walden | Written by transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau |
Cults | Counterfeit church groups which teach salvation by works rather than by salvation |
New Harmony | The community founded by Robert Owen |
Jonathan Goble | the first missionary to Japan |
Captain James Cook | Discovered Hawaii in 1778 |
Adoniram Judson | Is known as the Father of American Missions |
Colin Teague | Accompanied Loy Carey to Liberia |
Matthew Perry | Opened up Japan for trade to the US |
First Baptist missionary to Japan | Jonathan Goble |
Liquor | The stuff the American Temperance Union worked to stop the sale and consumption of |
Maine | The first state to outlaw liquor in 1846 |
Catherine Ferguson | started NY cities first Sunday School |
Dorothea L Dix | Improved treatment of the mentally ill |
Phoebe Palmer | founded NY first settlement house |
Spelling Bee | One of the most popular learning techniques in town schools |
Noah Webster | Is famous for his dictionaries and the blue backed speller |
William McGuffy | Remembered for his reading textbook |
Horace Mann | Achieved tax supported public schools |
School Room Poets | emphasized family values and patriotism in their works |
Henry W Longfellow | The Song of Hiawatha |
John Greenleaf Whittier | Snowbound |
Oliver W Holmes | Old Iron Sides |
Washington Irving | Rip Van Winkle |
James Fenimore Cooper | The Last of the Mohicans |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Scarlett Letter |
Edgar Allan Poe | Tall Tail Heart |
Herman Melville | Moby Dick |
Leather Stocking Tales | The Deer Slayer is a good example of one of JAmes Fennimore Cooper's (one of these) |
Stephen Foster | wrote over 200 songs including "Swanee River", "My Old Kentucky Home", "Oh! Susanna" |