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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did prairie women tend to do more typically male jobs than before?
(a) They signed a contract.
(b) To get the homestead started faster.
(c) Their husbands died early.
(d) Shortage of labor.

2. Where was a good place for a man to find a good woman?
(a) Ice cream socials.
(b) Church.
(c) School.
(d) Bachelors Balls.

3. Which of the following occurred in the Kansas Drought of 1860?
(a) Crippled harvests.
(b) Exodus.
(c) Theft.
(d) Prairie fires.

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

5. Which of the following diseases was common among the Kansas settlers?
(a) Tuberculosis
(b) Cholera.
(c) Measles.
(d) Diabetes.

Short Answer Questions

1. The first schoolhouses usually had nothing more than a stove and a __________________.

2. Who was the Cheyenne chief who led his warriors on a killing spree through Kansas?

3. Which of the following was a basic business for a frontier town?

4. Where did frontier families take shelter during Indian raids?

5. In what year did Kansas officially become a state?

(see the answer key)

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