View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the most notorious leader of the guerilla warfare Confederates?
(a) Wallace E. Beauregard.
(b) William C. Quantrill.
(c) Wade Stewart.
(d) William J. Lawrence.

2. Many times the prairie could be a/an ____________ place.
(a) Forbidding.
(b) Fascinating.
(c) Lonely.
(d) Exhilirating.

3. Why did streams run brown in Kansas in 1874?
(a) Mud slides.
(b) Grasshopper excrement.
(c) Drought.
(d) Indian wars.

4. Who attacked the town of Osawatomie?
(a) Independents.
(b) Pro-slavery forces.
(c) Abolitionists.
(d) Republicans.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With what did the settlers beat back fires from their houses?

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

3. What disease was particularly devastating for young children on the prairie?

4. Why did prairie women tend to do more typically male jobs than before?

5. The prairie was usually devoid of trees and ______________.

(see the answer key)

This section contains 176 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample