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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) Voting rights.
(b) Temperance.
(c) Healthcare.
(d) Education.

2. What served as a blackboard in a teacher's home?
(a) Walls.
(b) Wood planks.
(c) Cotton material.
(d) Dirt floor.

3. Which of the following towns sprang up around the cattle drive business?
(a) Abilene.
(b) Columbus.
(c) San Diego.
(d) Phoenix.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what Kansas town was Susannah Medora Salter elected mayor?

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

3. What was an issue of constant tension in Kansas from its very beginning?

4. Who was the most notorious leader of the guerilla warfare Confederates?

5. Why were cattle driven to Kansas and points East?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe a school environment in a woman's home.

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

4. What role did a hotel or inn play in a frontier town and what were some of the challenges in running such a business?

5. What was the personnel make up of a cattle drive?

6. What happened in 1867 to spur on the cattle drives and what were some of the towns that emerged around the drives?

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

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

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

10. Who was William C. Quantrill and what is he famous for during the Civil War?

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