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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12 and Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Frontier towns sprung up near major trails and ____________________.
(a) Trading posts.
(b) Stagecoach lines.
(c) Railroads.
(d) Churches.

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

3. Why were meat supplies low in the East?
(a) The grazing land was gone in the West.
(b) No one wanted to raise livestock.
(c) Mad Cow Disease wiped out the herds.
(d) Devastated by the Civil War.

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

5. Early Kansas newspapers published which type of the following information?
(a) Native Americans moving into the area.
(b) Vacant land for sale.
(c) News from New York.
(d) Recipes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sarah White and _______________ were two young white women captured by Indians.

2. As the frontier became settled and a new society emerged, there was a need for _______________.

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

4. How many people comprised an average School Board?

5. Prairie life made the woman ____________ her husband.

(see the answer key)

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