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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Prairie life made the woman ____________ her husband.
(a) In awe of.
(b) Equal to.
(c) Complain about.
(d) Subservient to.

2. Which of the following describes how Native Americans were viewed by the settlers?
(a) Gratitude.
(b) Acceptance.
(c) Joy.
(d) Fear.

3. Native Americans would often come uninvited into the settlers' homes and marvel at plates and __________________.
(a) Chiming clocks.
(b) Beds.
(c) Tables.
(d) Pillows.

4. At what distance were horses changed on a stagecoach route?
(a) 10 miles.
(b) 15 miles.
(c) 50 miles.
(d) 5 miles.

5. As the U.S. economy and population grew, _______________ were increasingly pushed west.
(a) Asians.
(b) Negroes.
(c) Native Americans.
(d) Homestead boundaries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the method used to find water in underground springs?

2. Many settlers found strength in ____________ when hardships came their way.

3. In what year were Native American tribes first forcibly forced to move west of the Mississippi River?

4. Many times the prairie could be a/an ____________ place.

5. What was the nickname for sod blocks?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the priority of the homesteaders upon arriving at their land?

2. How did the growing United States impact the Native American tribes?

3. Describe a typical picnic for the homesteaders.

4. In addition to fires, what other natural disasters did the homesteaders need to fend off?

5. What were the sources of hostility between the Native Americans and the homesteaders?

6. What were the two major government initiatives that forced Native Americans out of Kansas and where did they go?

7. Explain "water witching."

8. What natural threats were ever present for prairie families?

9. Prior to the mid 19th century, as what was Kansas known and what happened in 1854 to change that?

10. Why would prairie women suffer bouts of loneliness?

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