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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following did boy children do to help their fathers?
(a) Make guns.
(b) Hunt.
(c) Write letters.
(d) Visit the banker.

2. What act was passed which opened up Kansas to settlement?
(a) Kansas Settlement Act.
(b) Kansas Title Act.
(c) Kansas Land Act.
(d) Kansas-Nebraska Act.

3. Why were cattle driven to Kansas and points East?
(a) They could follow old trails.
(b) They brought higher prices there.
(c) They could not cross the Rockies.
(d) To replenish the meat supply in the East.

4. Which of the following was true about Anna Brewster Morgan?
(a) She organized a prairie women's group.
(b) She was the best shot in the West.
(c) She was captured by Indians.
(d) She founded the University of Kansas.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The disappearance of _______________ made the Native American visits less friendly.

2. What is one of the reasons that homesteaders liked cowboys coming through their territory?

3. When a General Store grew, it divided into separate departments that could include ______________.

4. Native Americans did not regard land as _______________________.

5. At what distance were horses changed on a stagecoach route?

(see the answer key)

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