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

2. When a General Store grew, it divided into separate departments that could include ______________.
(a) Books.
(b) Aromatherapy.
(c) Magazines.
(d) Pharmacy.

3. Who was the legendary abolitionist who waged war against pro-slavery towns and groups in Kansas?
(a) John Brown.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Jim Crow.
(d) Harriet Beecher Stowe.

4. In what year did Kansas officially become a state?
(a) 1859.
(b) 1861.
(c) 1873.
(d) 1899.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Kansas men joined the Union army when the Civil War came?

2. In what year was Susannah Medora Salter elected mayor of a Kansas town?

3. Where did the cook feed the men on a cattle drive?

4. What is one of the reasons that homesteaders liked cowboys coming through their territory?

5. In what year was the statewide Equal Suffrage Association created?

Short Essay Questions

1. What nationalities of immigrants moved into Kansas during the pioneer days?

2. What was the role of the prairie women in regard to education?

3. What issue united women as they began to get more of a voice in governmental, moral and social issues?

4. How would the pioneers fund the building of new churches and how were they built and furnished?

5. What was the most popular immigrant community in Kansas and what eventually happened to the town and its founder?

6. How were towns established on the frontier?

7. What was the role of the early newspapers established in Kansas?

8. What functions did a general store have in a frontier town and what role did women play in these establishments?

9. What was considered to be one of the worst crimes on the frontier and how were criminals punished?

10. Describe the teaching environment in one of the first constructed schoolhouses.

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