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Black preacher who founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1787?
Richard Allen
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Captain who discovered the Hawaiian Islands in 1778?
James Cook
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Man most responsible for the Second Great Awakening?
Charles Finney
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American lawyer who toured the United States promoting secular humanism?
Robert Green Ingersoll
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What title is Adoniram Judson remembered for?
"Father of American Missions"
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"Father of Western African Missions"
Lott Carey
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Methodist circuit rider that preached the gospel in Kentucky and Tennessee for 20 years?
Peter Cartwright
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A false religion that denied the deity of Christ, the Trinity, and the many other important Bible doctrines?
Unitarianism
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False religious philosophy that was developed by Ralph Waldo Emerson?
Transcendentalism
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United all but two of the Hawaiian Islands under his rule?
Kamehameha I
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Started New York City's first Sunday school?
Catherine Ferguson
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Improved the treatment of the mentally ill?
Dorothea L. Dix
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Founded New York City's first settlement house?
Phoebe Palmer
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Accompanied Lott Carey to Liberia?
Colin Teague
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Opened Japan to missionaries?
Townshend Harris
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Who pioneered the camp meeting revival?
James McGready
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Who did the Transcendentalists worship?
nature
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The first state to outlaw the use of liquor?
Maine
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Society organized in 1816 to distribute Bibles to frontier families?
American Bible Society
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What Indian group were the only North American tribe to develop their won written language?
Cherokee
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America's greatest contribution to the field of music?
Negro spiritual
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What was the Cherokee Indians relocation to Oklahoma called?
"Trail of Tears"
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American who opened Japan to trade with the West?
Commodore Matthew Perry
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Name for counterfeit church groups which teach salvation by works rather than salvation by grace through faith?
cults
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Cherokee Indian who invented a written language for his people?
Sequoya
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What book did Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau write?
Walden
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What did the American Temperance Union work to stop?
consumption and sale of alcohol
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Name of the socialist community funded by Robert Owen?
New Harmony
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The Methodist evangelist that John Wesley sent to America in 1771 to establish churches and Bible studies on the frontier?
Francis Asbury
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What does "Suffrade" mean?
the right to vote
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Only American poet honored in England's Westminster Abbey?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Schoolroom Poet who wrote "Snowbound"?
John Greenleaf Whittier
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Wrote exciting stories about frontier life in his Leatherstocking Tales?
James Fenimore Cooper
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Term for education that passes accumulated knowledge of the past to the present generation?
traditional education
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Two of the greatest 1800's authors who understood man's fallen nature?
- 1. Nathaniel Hawthorne
- 2. Herman Melville
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Person responsible for the start of public education?
Horace Mann
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Who is best remembered for his paintings of George Washington?
Gilbert Start
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Movement that was begun in the United States by Josiah Holbrook?
Lyceum movement
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Group of poets who became a favorite in American homes and schools?
Fireside or (Schoolroom Poets)
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Who became the first Baptist missionary to Japan?
Jonathan Goble
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What was William McGuffey best remembered for?
his reading textbooks
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Who is famous for his dictionaries and the Blue-Backed Speller?
Noah Webster
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One of the most popular learning techniques in the town schools?
spelling bee
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