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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. Why did prairie women tend to do more typically male jobs than before?
(a) To get the homestead started faster.
(b) They signed a contract.
(c) Their husbands died early.
(d) Shortage of labor.

2. What did prairie families look forward to?
(a) Church services.
(b) Quilting bees.
(c) Social visits.
(d) Barn raising.

3. What is the method used to find water in underground springs?
(a) Prayer.
(b) Plot maps.
(c) Indian signs.
(d) Water witching.

4. What was the most-celebrated holiday among prairie families?
(a) Fourth of July.
(b) New Year's.
(c) Thanksgiving.
(d) Christmas.

5. What was the weight of the average sod house?
(a) 90 tons.
(b) 10 tons.
(c) 5 tons.
(d) 2 tons.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was true about Anna Brewster Morgan?

2. What act was passed which opened up Kansas to settlement?

3. Which of the following was a type of house built by the new Kansas settlers?

4. In what year were Native American tribes first forcibly forced to move west of the Mississippi River?

5. What would announce that the Fourth of July had arrived?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did pioneer children do to amuse themselves?

2. In addition to fires, what other natural disasters did the homesteaders need to fend off?

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

4. How did the growing United States impact the Native American tribes?

5. Why would prairie women suffer bouts of loneliness?

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

7. Describe a typical picnic for the homesteaders.

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

9. Explain "water witching."

10. Describe a typical Christmas for a pioneer family.

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