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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many English people were attracted to settle in Victoria?
(a) 500.
(b) 50.
(c) 200.
(d) 100.

2. How many people comprised an average School Board?
(a) 7.
(b) 6.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

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

4. In what year was the Kansas town of Osawatomie attacked?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1865

5. What movement did Kansas participate in to help runaway slaves?
(a) Underground Railroad.
(b) The Federalists.
(c) Christians Against Slavery.
(d) The Kansas Abolitionists.

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

7. What is one of the reasons that homesteaders liked cowboys coming through their territory?
(a) Fresh meat for their families.
(b) They could buy livestock.
(c) New people to talk to.
(d) Cow chips.

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

9. The majority of prairie teachers were _________________.
(a) Missionaries.
(b) Young girls.
(c) Women from bigger cities.
(d) Frontier mothers.

10. In what town was Kansas' first woman's suffrage organization created?
(a) Adelaide.
(b) Lawrence.
(c) Morris.
(d) Lincoln.

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

12. Why were inns hard to maintain on the frontier?
(a) High food prices.
(b) No advertising.
(c) Lack of food.
(d) Native Americans in the area.

13. What was usually the only thing in a family of any real worth?
(a) Furniture.
(b) Horses.
(c) Bible.
(d) Coins.

14. In addition to temperance what other issue was important to Kansas women in the late 1850s?
(a) Women's suffrage.
(b) Birth control.
(c) Religion.
(d) Education.

15. What invention in the early 1880s helped the homesteaders protect themselves from cattle drives?
(a) Invisible fencing.
(b) Barbed wire.
(c) Cattle prods.
(d) Winchester rifles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following served as furnishings in early frontier churches?

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

3. Which group fought fiercely for Kansas in the slavery issue?

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

5. Why was the town of Osawatomie attacked?

(see the answer keys)

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