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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was a constant worry on the prairie?
(a) Fire.
(b) Wind.
(c) Hurricane.
(d) Sunburn.

2. What became the staple crops for the Kansas farmer?
(a) Potatoes and corn.
(b) Wheat and corn.
(c) Wheat and soybeans.
(d) Rye and corn.

3. As the U.S. economy and population grew, _______________ were increasingly pushed west.
(a) Negroes.
(b) Asians.
(c) Homestead boundaries.
(d) Native Americans.

4. What lured people from the east to head to Kansas to settle?
(a) Fertile soil.
(b) Low taxes.
(c) Abundant water.
(d) Cheap land.

5. What was the weight of the average sod house?
(a) 2 tons.
(b) 5 tons.
(c) 10 tons.
(d) 90 tons.

6. Which of the following was true about Anna Brewster Morgan?
(a) She was the best shot in the West.
(b) She organized a prairie women's group.
(c) She founded the University of Kansas.
(d) She was captured by Indians.

7. Who cleared paths after major snowstorms?
(a) Children.
(b) Women.
(c) Government workers.
(d) Community men.

8. Why did prairie women tend to do more typically male jobs than before?
(a) To get the homestead started faster.
(b) They signed a contract.
(c) Their husbands died early.
(d) Shortage of labor.

9. Who was the Cheyenne chief who led his warriors on a killing spree through Kansas?
(a) Chief Sitting Bull.
(b) Chief Lame Deer.
(c) Chief Geronimo.
(d) Chief Dull Knife.

10. Which of the following skills did most prairie women possess?
(a) Writing.
(b) Shearing sheep.
(c) Teaching.
(d) Scouting.

11. The western plains Indians were usually _______________.
(a) Farmers.
(b) Peacemakers.
(c) Friendly.
(d) Warlike.

12. Which of the following did the settlers look for in determining where to make their homes?
(a) Meadows.
(b) Fertile soil
(c) No neighbors.
(d) Good neighbors.

13. Which of the following occurred in the Kansas Drought of 1860?
(a) Crippled harvests.
(b) Exodus.
(c) Prairie fires.
(d) Theft.

14. Which of the following diseases was common among the Kansas settlers?
(a) Tuberculosis
(b) Measles.
(c) Diabetes.
(d) Cholera.

15. In what year were Native American tribes first forcibly forced to move west of the Mississippi River?
(a) 1890.
(b) 1820.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1830.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of animals usually worked the plow?

2. Who was the main musician at prairie dances?

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

4. What was the nickname for sod blocks?

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

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