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FRONTIER
STATEHOOD
CIVIL WAR
KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT
INDIAN TENSIONS
100
It was their job to keep peace between the Americans moving west and the Indians who live in the West.
What are frontier soldiers?
100
Two reasons that Kansas had a rough start in the first years of statehood.
What are "drought" or "no money in the state treasury" or "pro-slavery state of Missouri on the East" or "no guns in the armory" or "increasing Indian tension on the western frontier", or "Civil War"?
100
Side supported by most Kansans during the Civil War.
What is the Union?
100
Concept that allowed the people who lived in Kansas Territory to decide the fate of slavery in the state.
What is popular sovereignty?
100
Americans who lived on Indian lands.
What are squatters?
200
Ended the frontier in Kansas.
What are railroads?
200
Kansas State motto in English.
What is "To the Stars Through Difficulty"?
200
An attack on Lawrence that killed 140 men and boys.
What is Quantrill's Raid?
200
Missourians who voted in the first territorial election because they wanted the proslavery forces to take control of Kansas Territory.
What are border ruffians?
200
Place where 5,000 Indians met with a commission appointed by the U.S. Congress to sign a peace treaty.
What is Medicine Lodge?
300
Members of the 9th and 10th Cavalries.
What are Buffalo Soldiers?
300
Date Kansas became a state.
What is January 29, 1861?
300
The only major Civil War battle fought in Kansas.
What is the battle of Mine Creek?
300
Missourians who raided Kansas and attacked antislavery settlements.
What are bushwhackers?
300
Action taken by white settlers with the support of the United States Army during the late 1800's in Kansas which led to increased conflict with American Indians.
What is the seizure of tribal lands?
400
Year that the frontier was declared closed.
What is 1890?
400
Kansas was the _______ state to join the Union.
What is 34th?
400
The first state in the Union to enlist African Americans as soldiers.
What is Kansas?
400
Following the signing of the Kanas-Nebraska Act of 1854 they fought to prevent the legalization of slavery in the territory.
What are free-staters?
400
The massacre of Plains Indians by the Colorado Volunteer regiments.
What is the Sand Creek Massacre?
500
Kansas' two active military forts.
What are Ft. Riley and Ft. Leavenworth?
500
The Kansas state motto in Latin.
What is "Ad Astra Per Aspera"?
500
100 Kansas men who provided special protection for President Lincoln for three weeks.
What is James Lane's Frontier Guard?
500
Free-staters who fought in Kansas during the Border War were sometimes known as ________________.
What are jayhawkers?
500
A Kiowa Chief and a Comanche Chief who spoke at the Medicine Lodge Peace Treaty.
Who are Satanta and Ten Bears?