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After years of small-scale civil war, Kansas was admitted into the Union as a free state under the "Wyandotte Constitution" on January 29, 1861. Most people gave strong support for the Union cause. However, guerrilla warfare and raids from pro-slavery forces, many spilling over from Missouri, occurred during the Civil War.
1916: Kansas troops serve on the U.S.-Mexico border during the Mexican Revolution. 1922 and 1927: legal battles Kansas against the Ku Klux Klan, resulting in their expulsion from the state. 1925: Flag of Kansas designed by Hazel Avery. [4] 1928: Charles Curtis of Topeka, first Native American to be elected as Vice-President of United States [5]
1559 - Tristan de Luna founded the first short-lived settlement Pensacola, Florida. 1565 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés founds St. Augustine, Florida. Spanish. [1] 1579 – Francis Drake claims New Albion for England. 1585 – The Roanoke Colony is founded. English. [1] 1588 – England and its Dutch allies defeat the Spanish Armada.
The colony was captured by the Dutch in 1655 and merged into New Netherland, with most of the colonists remaining. Years later, the entire New Netherland colony was incorporated into England's colonial holdings. The colony of New Sweden introduced Lutheranism to America in the form of some of the continent's oldest European churches. [40]
The American Revolutionary War broke out against British rule in April 1775 with the Battles of Lexington and Concord. [1] The Second Continental Congress met in May 1775, and established an army funded by Congress and under the leadership of George Washington , a Virginian who had fought in the French and Indian War . [ 2 ]
Last week, Orman Hines, who spent years participating in the first modern archaeological digs of the colony and helped found the nonprofit group to remember, gazed out at the shoreline where the ...
The bulk of Kansas Territory east of 25° west from Washington was admitted as the thirty-fourth state, Kansas. The remainder became unorganized territory. [214] [233] February 8, 1861 The Confederate States of America was formed by representatives of the seceded states of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina. [234]
Jul. 5—CONCORD — It seems unthinkable that a time would come when the Granite State no longer produces granite. ... Swenson Granite was founded in 1883 by Kurt's great-grandfather, John ...