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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

15 Questions4 MinutesCreated by LearningBuffalo32

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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