7th Pre/Post Test
Exploring Kansas History Quiz
Challenge your knowledge of Kansas history with this engaging quiz! Discover the rich tapestry of events, personalities, and cultural influences that shaped the Sunflower State.
What's inside:
- Multiple-choice questions
- Insights into key historical figures
- Fun facts about Kansas's role in American history
John Greenleaf Whittier wrote the poem “The Kansas Emigrant Song”:
As a love song to his wife.
As a tribute to his grandparents.
With a hidden message in support of slavery.
To encourage those against slavery to settle Kansas Territory.
The Underground Railroad was:
The first railroad to be built across the continental United States.
A company run by slave owners wanting to move to Kansas Territory.
Destroyed during the Wakarusa War.
A network of safe houses that helped slaves escape.
Border ruffians from Missouri voted in the first territorial election because:
They wanted the proslavery forces to take control of Kansas Territory.
They wanted to see if they could get away with illegally voting in another state.
They intended to move to Kansas Territory in the future.
They did not know where the border of Missouri was located.
The description of Kansas as “The Great Desert” led Americans to think that Kansas would be:
A difficult place for Americans to settle but a good place to relocate Indian tribes.
A great place to vacation.
Good land for a buffalo reserve.
Land that could be sold back to the Europeans.
Manifest Destiny was the belief that:
The United States should expand west so that the country went from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
The United States should be a monarchy, with a king as its leader.
The United States should push the American Indians west.
Everyone in America should live on a farm.
What forms Kansas’s only natural border:
The Atlantic Ocean
The Missouri River
The Rocky Mountains
The Ogallala Aquifer
The Permian Sea:
Became the Kansas River.
Exists today near Salina, Kansas.
Was a prehistoric sea thousands of years ago.
Made buffalo extinct.
We can tell when people began living in permanent villages because of what type of evidence?
Homes that were covered with grasses and plastered with clay and cultivated gardens
Trade items brought from the southwest
Bones of mastodons and darts
Boiling stones
Historians refer to the historic period in Kansas beginning when:
Big Game Hunters arrive
The village farmers begin to cultivate corn
Francisco de Coronado arrives in Kansas and we begin to have written records
Kansas becomes a State
The Kansas state motto is written in Latin and means:
My Old Kansas Home.
Kansas, as Big as You Think.
To the Stars Through Difficulty.
There is No Place Like Home.
General Sterling Price led Confederate troops into Kansas and was defeated:
At the Battle of Mine Creek.
At the Battle of Honey Springs.
During Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence.
At Fort Larned.
Buffalo chips were gathered as fuel because:
Women had lots of time to do this.
Wood was scarce
They were lighter weight than logs.
Farmers needed to clear them for their fields.
It was important to survey public lands in Kansas so that:
Road and highways could be built.
Legal boundaries could be established
Lakes and rivers could be redirected
Travel guides for immigrants could be produced.
Railroad land grants were:
Free land given to settlers by the government.
Land that was fenced for cattle drives
Public land given to the railroads by the government. In exchange, the railroads built tracks to specific locations.
Land given by the government to emigrant Indian tribes.
Which of the following crops were not grown in Kansas?
Corn and wheat
Rye and barley
Grapes and fruits
Rice and avocados
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