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- This man led the Texans in the Battle of San Jacinto against the Mexican army.
- Mexico accepted the _________ _____________ as the border between Texas and Mexico.
- In 1833, a dictator named __________________ ___________ _____________ took complete control of Mexico.
- In 1845 Texas became the 28th state of the United States. Unfortunately Mexico was not happy with the boundaries established by Texas. Texas claimed the _________ ______________ as her western boundary, while Mexico claimed another boundary that gave Texas less land.
- Though the Treaty of Ghent was suppose to end the war, fighting between the American and British. The British were soundly defeated in the __________________ ______ __________ _____________.
- While the Civil War raged, he ministered to wounded soldiers in Confederate hospitals
- A Shoshone Native American who traveled with Lewis & Clark as an interpreter and guide.
- He founded America's 1st black Baptist congregation in Savannah
- America's 1st missionary to a foreign lane was _________ ___________, a black preacher who earned his own support while a missionary in Jamaica.
- He founded the African Baptist Missionary Society of Richmond
- this church became the core for the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the 1st black denomination in the United States
- This group of singers from Tennessee introduced spirituals to the northern states and Europe beginning in 1871.
- This frontiers man from Tennessee helped the Texans fight the Mexicans at the Alamo
- Thomas Jefferson purchased land from Napoleon in 1803; this land purchase more than doubled the size of the United States. It was known as the _________________ ________________.
- In 1793, she began holding a Sunday school for local children in her home. This is believed to be New York City's first Sunday school program.
- These are recognized as America's greatest contribution to the field of music.
- While in college a young man named _____________ ___. _____________ met with other men at his college for a prayer meeting. When it began to rain, instead of canceling the meeting the young men continued to pray under a nearby haystack. This meeting became known as the "haystack prayer meeting."+
- One of the best known circuit riders was ____________ ___________, who preached the gospel throughout the frontier, particularly in Tennessee and Kentucky
- in the mid-1780s Richard Allen settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and eventually founded a black congregation called
- God answered the prayers of the haystack prayer meeting by sending out the Father of American Missions, ____________ _____________