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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following was a type of house built by the new Kansas settlers?
(a) Stucco house.
(b) Brick house.
(c) Stone house.
(d) Log cabin.

2. What served as a blackboard in a teacher's home?
(a) Wood planks.
(b) Cotton material.
(c) Walls.
(d) Dirt floor.

3. To what city had the Kansas Pacific Railroad reached by 1870?
(a) Provo.
(b) Bozeman.
(c) Denver.
(d) Sacramento.

4. Why were meat supplies low in the East?
(a) Devastated by the Civil War.
(b) No one wanted to raise livestock.
(c) The grazing land was gone in the West.
(d) Mad Cow Disease wiped out the herds.

5. The nature of a town could be changed with diverted railroad traffic or _____________________.
(a) Government intervention.
(b) An altered stagecoach line.
(c) Lots of new settlers.
(d) A new sheriff.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following did girl children do to help their mothers?

2. Where would a typical dance be held on the prairie?

3. What was the most-celebrated holiday among prairie families?

4. Native Americans would often come uninvited into the settlers' homes and marvel at plates and __________________.

5. In what year were Native American tribes first forcibly forced to move west of the Mississippi River?

(see the answer key)

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