History Chapter 9 Checkup Section D

Pioneer

A person who does something first, preparing the way for others

Circuit-riding preacher

A preacher who traveled from town to town preaching wherever there was no pastor and wherever churches needed a revival

Spirituals

America's greatest contribution to the field of music

Camp meeting

Kept the spirit of revival alive in America; held in tents

Flatboat

Long boat with a flat bottom

"Forty-niners"

Nickname for the miners who took part in the California Gold Rush

Ghost towns

Towns that became empty and deserted after gold miners moved on