Any citizen, freed slave, or intended citizen over age 21 who had not fought for the Confederacy could claim up to 160 acres of public land by paying a $10 fee.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
100
Those freed slaves who came after emancipation from the Southern states.
What is the first wave of African American immigrants to settle in Kansas?
100
They were clubs established by Germans as both social and athletic clubs. It provided a meeting place for German immigrants.
What are "turnverein clubs"?
100
Railroads, farms (agriculture), and meatpacking
What are three areas of work that Hispanic immigrants became a part of in Kansas?
100
The Civil Rights Movement includes actions and Supreme Court decisions that bring about change in the attitudes and actions of people between races.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
200
Abbie Bright came to Kansas to live with her brother and was "pushed" by her desire for adventure.
What "pulled" Abbie Bright to Kansas?
200
A town built by African Americans for African Americans to be an example showing that they could achieve economic and governmental success as well as any other races.
What is Nicodemus?
200
A newspaper for Spanish-speakers from Kansas that had the second largest circulation in the United States.
What is "El Cosmopolita"?
200
A celebration of Hispanic culture
What is "fiesta"?
200
The act of eliminating the separation of black people from white people during the first seventy years of the twentieth century.
What is "desegregation"?
300
He was a prosperctor who encouraged people from Tennessee and Kentucky to migrate to Kansas.
Who is Benjamin "Pap" Singleton?
300
Exodusters
What is the name given to a second group of African Americans who came to Kansas from the Deep South in the late 1870's?
300
Germans from Russia that were "pacifists" and did not have to serve in the state militia (military).
What are Mennonites?
300
They established another community and brought other forms of Christianity to Kansas.
What is contribution of Swedish settlers?
300
A Supreme Court decision that created "separate but equal".
What is "Plessy v. Ferguson"?
400
Settlers "pulled" to Kansas by the availability of farmland similar to Russian farmland.
What German-Russian settlers?
400
French settlers
What are those who were "pulled" by the opportunity to follow their trade of silk makin in the Kansas commune founded by Ernest de Boissiere.
400
Religious freedom to practice their Lutheran beliefs.
What was the reason for the Swedish immigrants to come to Kansas?
400
Added diversity to the local workforce, enriched our state's culture, and boosted the Kansas economy
How did immigrants from Southeast Asia contribute to Kansas?
400
A Supreme Court decision that ended Plessy and put an end to segregation in public schools.
What is Brown vs. the Board of Education?
500
People who were "pushed" by overcrowding, by no chance for advancement or alternative work.
"Pulled" by the availability of farmland and resources in Kansas.
What British settlers?
500
Italian immigrants
What are settlers who were "pulled" by opportunity to work in their trade, which was coal mining?
500
The coal-mining area of southeastern Kansas that was settled by Italians.
What is the "Little Balkans"?
500
Native Americans became a small and separate portion of Kansas, often not mentioned in history books after the Removal Act of 1853.
What are the contributions of Native Americans in Kansas?
500
Privileges for all U.S. citizens to share equal facilities, education, and opportunities as protected by federal laws and the US Constitution.