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

2. How did the frontier circuit preacher supplement his meager income?
(a) Shoed horses.
(b) Tutored students.
(c) Did carpentry work.
(d) Relied on housing and food from his congregation.

3. In what Kansas town was Susannah Medora Salter elected mayor?
(a) Amherst.
(b) Ansonia.
(c) Argonia.
(d) Allentown.

4. In what town was Kansas' first woman's suffrage organization created?
(a) Morris.
(b) Adelaide.
(c) Lawrence.
(d) Lincoln.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the most famous immigrant community in Kansas?

2. When a General Store grew, it divided into separate departments that could include ______________.

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

4. In what year did Kansas officially become a state?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. When was Kansas officially declared a state and how long had the process taken?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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