History Chapter 9 Checkup Section D
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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