Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier Test | Final Test - Easy

Joanna Stratton
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 118 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier Test | Final Test - Easy

Joanna Stratton
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 118 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. One way that families made money to fund a church was __________________.
(a) To sell Bibles.
(b) To sell encyclopedias.
(c) To sell raffle tickets.
(d) To hold a bake sale.

3. What would usually happen to someone caught stealing a horse?
(a) He would be sentenced to prison.
(b) He would be run out of town.
(c) He would be whipped.
(d) He would be hanged.

4. How many English people were attracted to settle in Victoria?
(a) 50.
(b) 200.
(c) 500.
(d) 100.

5. In what year did Kansas officially become a state?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1861.
(c) 1859.
(d) 1873.

6. Why were inns hard to maintain on the frontier?
(a) High food prices.
(b) Native Americans in the area.
(c) Lack of food.
(d) No advertising.

7. What was distinctive about Susannah Medora Salter's election?
(a) She was 75-years-old when elected.
(b) She had no interest in politics.
(c) She won against the incumbent who had the job for 20 years.
(d) She was the first woman in the nation to be elected mayor.

8. What document gave each territory the right to decide slavery for itself?
(a) The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
(b) The Emancipation Proclamation.
(c) The Monroe Doctrine.
(d) Jim Crow Laws.

9. When newspapers grew they became more subjective and filled with _______________.
(a) Editorials.
(b) Obituaries.
(c) Weather reports.
(d) Cartoons.

10. In what year was the statewide Equal Suffrage Association created?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1884.
(d) 1859.

11. What movement did Kansas participate in to help runaway slaves?
(a) The Kansas Abolitionists.
(b) Christians Against Slavery.
(c) The Federalists.
(d) Underground Railroad.

12. In what year was Susannah Medora Salter elected mayor of a Kansas town?
(a) 1844.
(b) 1887.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1901.

13. Which group fought fiercely for Kansas in the slavery issue?
(a) Pro-slavery proponents.
(b) Abolitionists.
(c) Yankees.
(d) Federalists.

14. Between what years did the majority of cattle drives take place on the American frontier?
(a) 1803-1823.
(b) 1900-1920.
(c) 1815-1835.
(d) 1866-1886.

15. Kansas was predominantly ______________ at this time.
(a) Quaker.
(b) Protestant.
(c) Jewish.
(d) Catholic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following did the school districts control?

2. The majority of prairie teachers were _________________.

3. How did the frontier circuit preacher supplement his meager income?

4. Who was the legendary abolitionist who waged war against pro-slavery towns and groups in Kansas?

5. William C. Quantrill's most famous exploit against a Federal prison left 200 buildings in ruins and killed _______ people.

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