What is Kansas?
a state
Where?
in the United States
Is it in the South?
no
Where then?
in the Midwest
Where did the name come from?
the Kansa
When was it first settled by anyone other than Native Americans?
no
What happened in 1812?
it was settled by European Americans
In what city?
Bonner Springs
What was it known as during the settlement time?
Bleeding Kansas
Why?
the area was a hotbed of violence and chaos
Who was fighting?
abolitionist Free-Staters and pro-slavery settlers
Who won?
The abolitionists
When did they become a state?
January 29, 1861
Did all of the tribes live the same way?
no
How were they divided?
into eastern and western parts of the state
How did the Eastern part live?
in villages along the river valleys.
And the west?
they were semi-nomadic
Did they hunt anything?
yes
What?
bison.
What was the KansaNebraska Act?
it opened to Kansas to settlement