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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which of the following areas did women gain more influence toward the end of the pioneer period?
(a) Marital affairs.
(b) Governmental affairs.
(c) Religious issues.
(d) Economic issues.

2. If a town did not have a schoolhouse, where would the teacher hold class?
(a) In the church.
(b) In a dugout.
(c) In the dry good store.
(d) In her own home.

3. Frontier towns sprung up near major trails and ____________________.
(a) Railroads.
(b) Stagecoach lines.
(c) Trading posts.
(d) Churches.

4. In what year was the Kansas town of Osawatomie attacked?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1865

5. General stores also served as _____________.
(a) Saloons.
(b) Post offices.
(c) Blacksmith shops.
(d) Whorehouses.

6. Some of the Kansas soldiers went east and some _____________________.
(a) Stayed in Kansas to fight guerilla warfare Confederates.
(b) Went to Canada.
(c) Went directly south.
(d) Went to New York to work in army offices.

7. What would usually happen to someone caught stealing a horse?
(a) He would be whipped.
(b) He would be sentenced to prison.
(c) He would be hanged.
(d) He would be run out of town.

8. What invention in the early 1880s helped the homesteaders protect themselves from cattle drives?
(a) Winchester rifles.
(b) Invisible fencing.
(c) Barbed wire.
(d) Cattle prods.

9. Why did Texas ranchers have to rely on cattle drives?
(a) Their cattle counts grew too fast.
(b) They did not have railroads.
(c) They needed to thwart rustlers.
(d) That was their main industry.

10. In addition to temperance what other issue was important to Kansas women in the late 1850s?
(a) Birth control.
(b) Women's suffrage.
(c) Education.
(d) Religion.

11. What was the group that wanted to end slavery?
(a) Abolitionists.
(b) Copperheads.
(c) Ku Klux Klan.
(d) Jim Crow.

12. How much was the average pay for a month's work on a cattle drive?
(a) $50-$100.
(b) $10-$30.
(c) $50-$75.
(d) $25-$40.

13. What weapon was Carry Nation notorious for using?
(a) Shovel.
(b) Rifle.
(c) Fireplace poker.
(d) Ax.

14. If a frontier town didn't have a jail, a prisoner might be locked up in __________________.
(a) A stable.
(b) An underground bunker.
(c) A church.
(d) A stagecoach.

15. In what type of elections were women given the right to vote in 1861?
(a) State.
(b) School.
(c) Church.
(d) County.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many English people were attracted to settle in Victoria?

2. What served as a blackboard in a teacher's home?

3. Where did the cook feed the men on a cattle drive?

4. The majority of prairie teachers were _________________.

5. Which of the following was true for most frontier hotels?

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