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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did the cook feed the men on a cattle drive?
(a) Big table.
(b) Chuck wagon.
(c) Grub lean-to.
(d) Supper tent.

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

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

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

6. Professional teachers would sometimes supplement their meager income by ______________________.
(a) Boarding at one of the students' homes.
(b) Tutoring.
(c) Sewing.
(d) Writing books.

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

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

9. In which of the following areas did women gain more influence toward the end of the pioneer period?
(a) Religious issues.
(b) Governmental affairs.
(c) Marital affairs.
(d) Economic issues.

10. The first schoolhouses usually had nothing more than a stove and a __________________.
(a) Bookshelf.
(b) Chair.
(c) Small slate blackboard.
(d) Window.

11. Why were meat supplies low in the East?
(a) Mad Cow Disease wiped out the herds.
(b) The grazing land was gone in the West.
(c) No one wanted to raise livestock.
(d) Devastated by the Civil War.

12. Why did Texas ranchers have to rely on cattle drives?
(a) Their cattle counts grew too fast.
(b) They did not have railroads.
(c) That was their main industry.
(d) They needed to thwart rustlers.

13. Which of the following was a basic business for a frontier town?
(a) Book shop.
(b) Cafe.
(c) Hotel.
(d) Bakery.

14. Which of the following meant the end to open range cattle drives?
(a) Increased fencing.
(b) East Coast ranches.
(c) ASPCA movement.
(d) Vegetarian movement.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year did Kansas women win the right to vote in city elections?

3. Who was the legendary abolitionist who waged war against pro-slavery towns and groups in Kansas?

4. The nature of a town could be changed with diverted railroad traffic or _____________________.

5. Kansas was predominantly ______________ at this time.

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