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

2. What organization initiated real change in the temperance movement in Kansas?
(a) Christian Kansas Women's Temperance League.
(b) Kansas Women's Temperance Movement.
(c) Sober and Strong Women for Kansas.
(d) National Women's Christian Temperance Union.

3. Between what years did the majority of cattle drives take place on the American frontier?
(a) 1803-1823.
(b) 1866-1886.
(c) 1900-1920.
(d) 1815-1835.

4. Why was the town of Osawatomie attacked?
(a) John Brown lived there.
(b) The Union army was encamped there.
(c) Five sons of John Brown lived there.
(d) Abraham Lincoln was giving a speech there.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Early Kansas newspapers published which type of the following information?

2. In what city did William C. Quantrill base his operations?

3. Which of the following did the school districts control?

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

5. What movement did Kansas participate in to help runaway slaves?

Short Essay Questions

1. What types of businesses were lured to towns and how permanent were these new communities?

2. What was the process that ultimately led to women's voting rights on the city level?

3. Why was the town of Osawatomie attacked by pro-slavery forces in 1856?

4. Why were cowboys and cattle drives both a blessing and a curse to pioneer families?

5. What was meant by a preacher who was a "circuit rider"?

6. Who was Susannah Medora Salter and for what is she famous?

7. Who was John Brown and what was his role in the slavery issue in Kansas?

8. In what woman's issue was Kansas one of the most progressive states in the Union?

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

10. In what year did women get the right to vote in federal elections and where did Kansas fall in the progression of states to grant this right?

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