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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What document gave each territory the right to decide slavery for itself?
(a) The Emancipation Proclamation.
(b) The Monroe Doctrine.
(c) Jim Crow Laws.
(d) The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.

2. Which group fought fiercely for Kansas in the slavery issue?
(a) Yankees.
(b) Federalists.
(c) Abolitionists.
(d) Pro-slavery proponents.

3. How did the frontier circuit preacher supplement his meager income?
(a) Shoed horses.
(b) Tutored students.
(c) Relied on housing and food from his congregation.
(d) Did carpentry work.

4. What was distinctive about Susannah Medora Salter's election?
(a) She was 75-years-old when elected.
(b) She was the first woman in the nation to be elected mayor.
(c) She won against the incumbent who had the job for 20 years.
(d) She had no interest in politics.

5. Some of the Kansas soldiers went east and some _____________________.
(a) Stayed in Kansas to fight guerilla warfare Confederates.
(b) Went to Canada.
(c) Went to New York to work in army offices.
(d) Went directly south.

6. Which of the following did the cowboys do in town once the cattle drive was over?
(a) Went to church.
(b) Settled in town.
(c) Wrote letters home.
(d) Got cleaned up at the Barber Shop.

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

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

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

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

11. In what year was the statewide Equal Suffrage Association created?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1859.
(d) 1884.

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

13. What was Carry Nation's rallying cry as she wrecked saloons?
(a) "Smashing bottles, saving souls."
(b) "Another victory over demon rum."
(c) "Be gone, demon rum."
(d) "Smash, women, smash."

14. What percentage of the adult male population of Kansas joined the Union army when the Civil War came?
(a) Three-quarters.
(b) One-half.
(c) One-fourth.
(d) Two-thirds.

15. In what city did William C. Quantrill base his operations?
(a) Harlan.
(b) Lawrence.
(c) Abilene.
(d) Fort Scott.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was true for most frontier hotels?

2. What business became the hub of the frontier town?

3. Which of the following towns sprang up around the cattle drive business?

4. Which of the following meant the end to open range cattle drives?

5. In what type of elections were women given the right to vote in 1861?

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