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Test #4
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17
History
3rd Grade
07/06/2011

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James Beckworth
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found a pass through the Rocky Mountains
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long hunter
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a man who went on a hunting trip and did not come back for years
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Dolley Madison
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saved important documents and items from burning in the Capitol building
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Francis Scott Key
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wrote a poem that later became our national anthem, "The Star Spangled Banner"
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War of 1812
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ended with a treaty
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landmarks
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easily seen objects like mountains and trees- to go by
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Trail of Tears
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a path the Cherokee and other groups took. Many got sick and died.
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Reservation
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a place set aside for Native Americans
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Narcissa Whitman and Eliza Spalding
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first white women to see the Pacific Ocean
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Circuit-Riding Preacher
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a preacher would ride from one town to the next on a planned route
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Stephen Paxson
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started Sunday schools and was spreading the gospel in the West
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exhorter
Definition
someone who would beg you to go forward in a service
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forty-niner
Definition
men who came to look for gold in 1849
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President James Madison
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agreed with Henry Clay that America should fight England
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Mormons
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believed their leader, Joseph Smith, had been visited by an angel. believed they can get to heaven by belonging to their church and doing good works.
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Utah
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place where the Mormons settled
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missionaries
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often were the first white people in a new place
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