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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What organization initiated real change in the temperance movement in Kansas?
(a) National Women's Christian Temperance Union.
(b) Christian Kansas Women's Temperance League.
(c) Kansas Women's Temperance Movement.
(d) Sober and Strong Women for Kansas.

2. What was the minimum acreage of dedicated township to establish a town?
(a) 500 acres.
(b) 1000 acres.
(c) 50 acres.
(d) 320 acres.

3. Which of the following served as furnishings in early frontier churches?
(a) Backless benches.
(b) Brocade drapes.
(c) Windsor chairs.
(d) Fireplaces.

4. What did speculators offer businesses to come to town?
(a) Tax breaks.
(b) Free real estate.
(c) Free advertising.
(d) Free housing.

5. The nature of a town could be changed with diverted railroad traffic or _____________________.
(a) Government intervention.
(b) A new sheriff.
(c) Lots of new settlers.
(d) An altered stagecoach line.

6. Kansas was the ___________ state in the union to grant women the right to vote in federal elections.
(a) 8th.
(b) 4th.
(c) 13th.
(d) 1st.

7. If a town did not have a schoolhouse, where would the teacher hold class?
(a) In the church.
(b) In the dry good store.
(c) In a dugout.
(d) In her own home.

8. When newspapers grew they became more subjective and filled with _______________.
(a) Weather reports.
(b) Cartoons.
(c) Obituaries.
(d) Editorials.

9. What was the first issue to unite many women in Kansas?
(a) Education.
(b) Healthcare.
(c) Voting rights.
(d) Temperance.

10. Frontier towns sprung up near major trails and ____________________.
(a) Railroads.
(b) Churches.
(c) Stagecoach lines.
(d) Trading posts.

11. In what type of elections were women given the right to vote in 1861?
(a) County.
(b) School.
(c) Church.
(d) State.

12. Why was the town of Osawatomie attacked?
(a) John Brown lived there.
(b) The Union army was encamped there.
(c) Abraham Lincoln was giving a speech there.
(d) Five sons of John Brown lived there.

13. Why were men not attracted to frontier teaching positions?
(a) They didn't think it was manly work.
(b) They preferred to farm.
(c) They didn't have the education.
(d) Insufficient salary.

14. How many years did the town of Victoria last?
(a) 25.
(b) 10.
(c) 50.
(d) 100.

15. Who planned and directed a cattle drive?
(a) Rancher.
(b) Sheriff.
(c) Government.
(d) Trail boss.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were cattle driven to Kansas and points East?

2. In addition to temperance what other issue was important to Kansas women in the late 1850s?

3. People of which nationality immigrated to settle in Kansas?

4. Which of the following might have served as a church in early frontier life?

5. When a General Store grew, it divided into separate departments that could include ______________.

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