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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was a constitutional amendment introduced to give women the right to vote?
(a) 1859.
(b) 1876.
(c) 1867.
(d) 1910.

2. What was the method of transportation chosen by single people or small families to get to Kansas?
(a) Train.
(b) Stagecoach.
(c) Boat.
(d) Covered wagon.

3. What was an issue of constant tension in Kansas from its very beginning?
(a) Religion.
(b) Prohibition.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Education.

4. Native Americans would often come uninvited into the settlers' homes and marvel at plates and __________________.
(a) Chiming clocks.
(b) Tables.
(c) Pillows.
(d) Beds.

5. What invention in the early 1880s helped the homesteaders protect themselves from cattle drives?
(a) Barbed wire.
(b) Winchester rifles.
(c) Invisible fencing.
(d) Cattle prods.

Short Answer Questions

1. To which of the following were Kansas settlers subjected?

2. In what year did Kansas decide to become a state?

3. What was the group that wanted to end slavery?

4. 1874 was named ___________________ due to crop devastation.

5. To what city had the Kansas Pacific Railroad reached by 1870?

(see the answer key)

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