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100
Confederate Guerrilla.
What is a bushwacker?
100
Miners rushed across Kansas in 1849 to find this.
What is gold?
100
A person who studies the customs/beliefs of people.
What is an anthropologist?
100
The first major cattle town in Kansas.
What is Abilene?
100
This political party tended to dominate elections in Kansas.
What is the Republican Party?
200
A Spanish conqueror.
What is a Conquistador?
200
The major trail that crossed Kansas territory to get to New Mexico.
What is the Santa Fe Trail?
200
People vote to choose.
What is popular sovereignty?
200
The term used to describe a person who refuses to participate in the armed forces.
What is a pacifist?
200
Kansans used this machine to deal with the problem of grasshoppers in the 1930s.
What is a hopperdozer?
300
Law forbidding the brewing and sale of alcohol.
What is prohibition?
300
This part of Kansas supported prohibition.
What are rural areas/small towns?
300
Union guerrilla.
What is a Jayhawker?
300
The term used to describe the separation of races in society.
What is segregation?
300
Kansans used these chemicals to deal with the problem of grasshoppers in the 1930s.
What are poisons?
400
A person who digs up, and studies artifacts of pre-historic peoples.
What is an Archaeologist?
400
Miners rushed across Kansas in 1849 to this state.
What is California?
400
Payment of cash or goods over a period of time.
What is an annuity?
400
Groups the Ku Klux Klan were hostile to in the 1920s. (Name 3)
What are the blacks, Catholics, immigrants, Jews.
400
Two ways farmers use to prevent soil from blowing away as it did in the 1930s. (Not using their plows)
What are wind rows and terracing.
500
Someone who leaves their home for a new life elsewhere.
What is an emigrant?
500
The major trail that crossed Kansas territory going to the west coast.
What is the Oregon/California Trail?
500
Across a continent.
What is transcontinental?
500
The factories in Kansas helped the war effort in the 1940s by producing these.
What are aircrafts?
500
Two more ways farmers plowed to prevent soil from blowing away as it did in the 1930s.
What are contour plowing and reduced tillage?