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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In prairie schools at a teacher's home the same material would be taught to children of all ages and there were no _____________.
(a) Exams.
(b) Recesses.
(c) Grades.
(d) Scholarships.

2. What business became the hub of the frontier town?
(a) Newspaper.
(b) Blacksmith.
(c) General store.
(d) Saloon.

3. Who was the most notorious leader of the guerilla warfare Confederates?
(a) Wade Stewart.
(b) Wallace E. Beauregard.
(c) William C. Quantrill.
(d) William J. Lawrence.

4. In what year was Susannah Medora Salter elected mayor of a Kansas town?
(a) 1887.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1844.
(d) 1901.

5. For what is Carry Nation best known?
(a) Shooting the president.
(b) Becoming a preacher.
(c) Founding the University of Kansas.
(d) Being a Prohibitionist.

6. Early Kansas newspapers published which type of the following information?
(a) News from New York.
(b) Native Americans moving into the area.
(c) Recipes.
(d) Vacant land for sale.

7. Who was the prohibitionist who introduced legislation to prohibit the sale of alcohol?
(a) John Brown.
(b) William Seward.
(c) John St. John.
(d) Wade Chasen.

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

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

10. In what year did Kansas decide to become a state?
(a) 1857.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1833.

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

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

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

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

15. Towns on the frontier had a(n) ______________ quality.
(a) Robust.
(b) Aggressive.
(c) Boom or bust.
(d) Innovative.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year was the Kansas town of Osawatomie attacked?

3. What would usually happen to someone caught stealing a horse?

4. William C. Quantrill's most famous exploit against a Federal prison left 200 buildings in ruins and killed _______ people.

5. What did speculators offer businesses to come to town?

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