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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was distinctive about Susannah Medora Salter's election?

3. What did speculators offer businesses to come to town?

4. For the most part there was no _____________ in Kansas, especially by the start of the Civil War.

5. Why did Texas ranchers have to rely on cattle drives?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. During what years were cowboys prominent on the frontier and why were they first organized?

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

6. Explain the slavery issue in Kansas and what the Kansas-Nebraska Ace of 1854 decided.

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

8. 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?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the role of religion on the Kansas prairie. Was there an increase in religious life because just living on the prairie was such a trying experience? What were the primary religions represented on the Kansas frontier?

Essay Topic 2

Describe holidays on the Kansas prairie. What was the favorite holiday of the homesteaders? How did they celebrate it? How were these days different from other social events? What traditions did the prairie women try to hold on to from their lives back East?

Essay Topic 3

Name at least three environmental catastrophes that plagued the Kansas homesteaders. Then cite the reasons why each catastrophe was so devastating to the pioneers. If there were any preventative measures employed by the pioneers, state those also in your answer.

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