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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. Where did frontier families take shelter during Indian raids?
(a) Their houses.
(b) Military forts.
(c) Churches.
(d) Underground shelters.

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

3. Which Kansas county was especially ravaged by the Cheyenne and Sioux tribes in 1868?
(a) Mitchell.
(b) McKenna.
(c) Madison.
(d) Mortimer.

4. Which of the following towns sprang up around the cattle drive business?
(a) Columbus.
(b) Phoenix.
(c) San Diego.
(d) Abilene.

5. Corn farmers usually raised a small amount of livestock for food including hogs and ___________.
(a) Chickens.
(b) Cows.
(c) Turkeys.
(d) Ducks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Texas ranchers have to rely on cattle drives?

2. Which of the following adorned the Christmas trees of prairie families?

3. What was one of the most serious crimes on the frontier?

4. What invention in the early 1880s helped the homesteaders protect themselves from cattle drives?

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

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