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

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 - Medium

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 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the frontier circuit preacher supplement his meager income?
(a) Relied on housing and food from his congregation.
(b) Tutored students.
(c) Shoed horses.
(d) Did carpentry work.

2. When a General Store grew, it divided into separate departments that could include ______________.
(a) Magazines.
(b) Pharmacy.
(c) Aromatherapy.
(d) Books.

3. What is one of the reasons that homesteaders liked cowboys coming through their territory?
(a) Cow chips.
(b) Fresh meat for their families.
(c) They could buy livestock.
(d) New people to talk to.

4. Children had to spread their time between school and _____________.
(a) Socials.
(b) Church.
(c) Chores.
(d) Homework.

5. People of which nationality immigrated to settle in Kansas?
(a) Swedish.
(b) Austrian.
(c) Italian.
(d) Polish.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the statewide Equal Suffrage Association created?

2. What was the most famous immigrant community in Kansas?

3. Why were inns hard to maintain on the frontier?

4. What is one of the reasons that homesteaders did not like cowboys coming through their territory?

5. Which of the following towns sprang up around the cattle drive business?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the most popular immigrant community in Kansas and what eventually happened to the town and its founder?

2. Who was William C. Quantrill and what is he famous for during the Civil War?

3. What was meant by a preacher who was a "circuit rider"?

4. What was the personnel make up of a cattle drive?

5. In what year did women get the right to vote in federal elections and where did Kansas fall in the progression of states to grant this right?

6. During what years were cowboys prominent on the frontier and why were they first organized?

7. Why were cowboys and cattle drives both a blessing and a curse to pioneer families?

8. When was Kansas officially declared a state and how long had the process taken?

9. What was the role of the early newspapers established in Kansas?

10. Who was Carry Nation and for what is she famous?

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