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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Travel.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was a common difficulty for frontiersmen after the Civil War?
(a) The threat of Indians.
(b) Financial hardship.
(c) Animals kept dying.
(d) The ground often did not yield a crop.

2. What percentage of farmers in the 1880s had to mortgage their land?
(a) 75%.
(b) 10%.
(c) 50%.
(d) 30%.

3. What was a chief concern with train travel in the late 1800s?
(a) Being on schedule.
(b) Personal safety.
(c) Lost luggage.
(d) Overcrowding.

4. How long did a typical rural school year last in the late 19th century?
(a) Nine months.
(b) Twelve months.
(c) Only a few months.
(d) Ten months.

5. According to Bettmann in "Air," many people were cramped together in windowless rooms in the tenements during the summer, causing:
(a) An increase in determination to succeed in the working class.
(b) Many people to flee the cities.
(c) Landlords to lower rents.
(d) Heat stroke and dehydration.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were the frontier drunkards in the late 19th century?

2. In the cities in the late 1800s, what did the public health officials do to help stop disease?

3. Providing the reader with a truer understanding of the late 1800s, Bettmann demonstrated:

4. The air quality in homes was dangerous in the late 1800s because of:

5. Before cars, what was the main source of transportation in the late 1800s?

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