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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 Kansas town was Susannah Medora Salter elected mayor?
(a) Amherst.
(b) Allentown.
(c) Argonia.
(d) Ansonia.

2. What was the group that wanted to end slavery?
(a) Abolitionists.
(b) Copperheads.
(c) Ku Klux Klan.
(d) Jim Crow.

3. The disappearance of _______________ made the Native American visits less friendly.
(a) Turkeys.
(b) Deer.
(c) Buffalo.
(d) Horses.

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

5. In what year did Kansas officially become a state?
(a) 1861.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1873.
(d) 1899.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In which of the following areas did women gain more influence toward the end of the pioneer period?

3. What did prairie families look forward to?

4. One way that families made money to fund a church was __________________.

5. Native Americans did not regard land as _______________________.

(see the answer key)

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