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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first schoolhouses usually had nothing more than a stove and a __________________.
(a) Bookshelf.
(b) Chair.
(c) Small slate blackboard.
(d) Window.

2. As the frontier became settled and a new society emerged, there was a need for _______________.
(a) Theater.
(b) Restaurants.
(c) Churches.
(d) Education.

3. What percentage of the adult male population of Kansas joined the Union army when the Civil War came?
(a) Two-thirds.
(b) Three-quarters.
(c) One-half.
(d) One-fourth.

4. In what year did Kansas women win the right to vote in city elections?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1913.
(d) 1887.

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

6. The nature of a town could be changed with diverted railroad traffic or _____________________.
(a) Lots of new settlers.
(b) A new sheriff.
(c) An altered stagecoach line.
(d) Government intervention.

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

8. What was an issue of constant tension in Kansas from its very beginning?
(a) Education.
(b) Prohibition.
(c) Religion.
(d) Slavery.

9. In what year was Susannah Medora Salter elected mayor of a Kansas town?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1887.
(c) 1844.
(d) 1910.

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

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

12. In prairie schools at a teacher's home the same material would be taught to children of all ages and there were no _____________.
(a) Recesses.
(b) Scholarships.
(c) Grades.
(d) Exams.

13. Which group fought fiercely for Kansas in the slavery issue?
(a) Abolitionists.
(b) Yankees.
(c) Pro-slavery proponents.
(d) Federalists.

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

15. What organization initiated real change in the temperance movement in Kansas?
(a) Christian Kansas Women's Temperance League.
(b) Sober and Strong Women for Kansas.
(c) National Women's Christian Temperance Union.
(d) Kansas Women's Temperance Movement.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Kansas men joined the Union army when the Civil War came?

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

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

4. Between what years did the majority of cattle drives take place on the American frontier?

5. Which of the following did the school districts control?

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