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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what distance were horses changed on a stagecoach route?
(a) 10 miles.
(b) 50 miles.
(c) 15 miles.
(d) 5 miles.

2. What kind of plow was used to turn the earth?
(a) Garden plow.
(b) Breaking plow.
(c) Sod buster plow.
(d) Earth mover plow.

3. Which of the following describes how Native Americans were viewed by the settlers?
(a) Acceptance.
(b) Joy.
(c) Gratitude.
(d) Fear.

4. To what city had the Kansas Pacific Railroad reached by 1870?
(a) Denver.
(b) Provo.
(c) Sacramento.
(d) Bozeman.

5. The howl of coyotes and _________ would frighten settlers especially at night.
(a) Prairie dogs.
(b) Indians.
(c) Bears.
(d) Wolves.

6. Picnics would most often occur on Saturday or ______________.
(a) Friday.
(b) Thursday.
(c) Wednesday.
(d) Sunday.

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

8. Some prairie women were called upon to perform minor surgery and to ______________.
(a) Stitch cuts.
(b) Give inoculations.
(c) Dress the dead for burial.
(d) Dispense pills.

9. What type of animals usually worked the plow?
(a) Oxen.
(b) Mules.
(c) Cows.
(d) Horses.

10. How much land did the government promise each Kansas settler?
(a) 100 acres.
(b) 30 acres.
(c) 50 acres.
(d) 160 acres.

11. Native Americans did not regard land as _______________________.
(a) Sacred.
(b) Their own.
(c) Eternal.
(d) Property to be parceled and sold.

12. Prairie life made the woman ____________ her husband.
(a) In awe of.
(b) Equal to.
(c) Subservient to.
(d) Complain about.

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

14. Why did streams run brown in Kansas in 1874?
(a) Grasshopper excrement.
(b) Drought.
(c) Mud slides.
(d) Indian wars.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Kansas county was especially ravaged by the Cheyenne and Sioux tribes in 1868?

2. Which of the following would occur on the Fourth of July?

3. Construction on what railroad began in 1862?

4. What was the nickname for sod blocks?

5. The disappearance of _______________ made the Native American visits less friendly.

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