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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 diseases was common among the Kansas settlers?
(a) Cholera.
(b) Diabetes.
(c) Tuberculosis
(d) Measles.

2. Who was the Cheyenne chief who led his warriors on a killing spree through Kansas?
(a) Chief Sitting Bull.
(b) Chief Lame Deer.
(c) Chief Geronimo.
(d) Chief Dull Knife.

3. As a result of the new railroad as well as the Homestead Act of 1862, Native Americans were pushed into the state of _____________.
(a) Arizona.
(b) Colorado.
(c) Montana.
(d) Oklahoma.

4. What was Kansas known as prior to the middle of the 19th century?
(a) God's Country.
(b) The Middle of Nowhere.
(c) The Great American Desert.
(d) Halfway to Heaven.

5. Why did streams run brown in Kansas in 1874?
(a) Drought.
(b) Indian wars.
(c) Grasshopper excrement.
(d) Mud slides.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was especially valued for their ability to keep out the cold?

2. With which of the following crops did Kansas farmers experiment?

3. What did prairie families look forward to?

4. How did Santa enter the homes of prairie families on Christmas Eve?

5. How were land concessions negotiated with the Native Americans?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who were Sarah White and Anna Brewster Morgan and why did they gain notoriety?

2. When did the railroad become a viable method of transportation west?

3. Describe how a winter storm was so incapacitating to prairie families.

4. What were the two major government initiatives that forced Native Americans out of Kansas and where did they go?

5. What were the sources of hostility between the Native Americans and the homesteaders?

6. What were some of the methods of transportation for people moving west to Kansas?

7. Describe a typical Christmas for a pioneer family.

8. What was the priority of the homesteaders upon arriving at their land?

9. What was the pioneer family's priority after establishing its homestead?

10. Describe the devastation of "The Grasshopper Year" in 1874.

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