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Discover Kansas: A Historical Quiz

Test your knowledge of Kansas's rich history with this engaging quiz! From the days of the Underground Railroad to the challenges of the Great Depression, this quiz covers significant events that shaped the Sunflower State.

Whether you're a student, teacher, or simply a history enthusiast, challenge yourself with questions like:

What motivated John Greenleaf Whittier in his writings?
What role did the Kansas state motto play in its identity?
How did Kansas agriculture evolve in the early 20th century?

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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.

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.

Populism developed as a response to:

Unhealthy working conditions in factories

A government that was viewed as more interested in moral issues

High debts and low prices for farmers

The writings of Emporia editor William Allen White

Kansas was the first state to:

Allow the manufacturein of alcohol for scientific research

Allow the use of alcohol for medical reasons

Ban the use of alclhol for personal use

Pass a constitutional amendment that outlawed the manufacturing or sale of alcohol.

The Flu Epidemic of 1918:

May have started at Fort Riley in Kansas

Killed more people than the battle of World War I

Was spread when American soldiers went overseas

All of the answers are correct

During the Great Depression:

Many of the aviation companies in Wichita went out of business

Ready-to-wear clothing was popularized

The coutry doubled its number of roads and highways

Fast food was invented

The dust bowl resulted from:

Years of drought and over plowing and over grazing

The damage down by establishing rural electrification

Mining strikes in southeast Kansas

Too many years as a consumer economy.

Segregation in Kansas schools had to be changed because:

It cost too much money

There was not enough textbooks to go around

It violated the US constitution

Too many teachers refused to teach in segregated schools

The US Supreme court case "Brown v. Board of Education:"

Integrated Argentine High School

Tested the idea of "separate but equal" in education

Closed down Docum's drugstore for having a segregated lunch counter

Created African American School in Kansas

The State Board of Education in Kansas:

Overseas all public K-12 schools

Provides for some level of standardization in education

Allow for local control of many aspects of education

All answers are correct

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