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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 was a basic business for a frontier town?
(a) Hotel.
(b) Book shop.
(c) Cafe.
(d) Bakery.

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

3. In what year was a constitutional amendment introduced to give women the right to vote?
(a) 1867.
(b) 1876.
(c) 1859.
(d) 1910.

4. 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.

5. Professional teachers would sometimes supplement their meager income by ______________________.
(a) Writing books.
(b) Sewing.
(c) Tutoring.
(d) Boarding at one of the students' homes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following towns sprang up around the cattle drive business?

2. When a General Store grew, it divided into separate departments that could include ______________.

3. In what year was Susannah Medora Salter elected mayor of a Kansas town?

4. Some of the Kansas soldiers went east and some _____________________.

5. Which of the following meant the end to open range cattle drives?

Short Essay Questions

1. What issue united women as they began to get more of a voice in governmental, moral and social issues?

2. What was the personnel make up of a cattle drive?

3. In what year did women get the right to vote in federal elections and where did Kansas fall in the progression of states to grant this right?

4. Explain the slavery issue in Kansas and what the Kansas-Nebraska Ace of 1854 decided.

5. What was the most popular immigrant community in Kansas and what eventually happened to the town and its founder?

6. Was slavery a part of life in Kansas prior to the Civil War?

7. What types of businesses were lured to towns and how permanent were these new communities?

8. Who was John Brown and what was his role in the slavery issue in Kansas?

9. What was meant by a preacher who was a "circuit rider"?

10. What was the process that ultimately led to women's voting rights on the city level?

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