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Kansas; a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. Chicago: Standard Publishing. volume 1 at the Internet Archive volume 2 at the Internet Archive old alphabetical encyclopedia; Cutler, William G. History of the State of Kansas (1883), detailed, reliable older history
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] 1927: flag officially adopted by the Kansas State Legislature.
The Kansas Pacific main line shown on an 1869 map (from History of Kansas) Image 34 Map of Kansas and Missouri with Kansas City metro counties (from Kansas ) Image 35 1915–1918 Kansas railroad map (from Kansas )
Iowa became part of the United States of America after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, but uncontested U.S. control over what is now Iowa occurred only after the War of 1812 and after a series of treaties eliminated Indian claims on the state. Beginning in the 1830s Euro-American settlements appeared in the Iowa Territory, U.S. statehood was ...
A portion of a prairie given to the Iowa Tribe of Kansas, as seen on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022, in Johnson County, Iowa. ... said Leo Landis of the State Historical Society of Iowa to the Des Moines ...
Kansas Territory was established on May 30, 1854, by the Kansas–Nebraska Act.This act established both the Nebraska Territory and Kansas Territory. The most momentous provision of the Act in effect repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and allowed the settlers of Kansas Territory to determine by popular sovereignty whether Kansas would be a free state or a slave state.
At the outbreak of the American Civil War in April 1861, Kansas was the newest U.S. state, admitted just months earlier in January. The state had formally rejected slavery by popular vote and vowed to fight on the side of the Union, though ideological divisions with neighboring Missouri, a slave state, had led to violent conflict in previous years and persisted for the duration of the war.
Iowa magnetic anomaly map showing the Midcontinent Rift curving from the north center to the southwest part of the state. [8] Buried deeply within Iowa's bedrock, the Midcontinent Rift System can be seen clearly in magnetic anomaly maps of Iowa. This is a billion-year-old tectonic plate scar that extends from Kansas through Lake Superior. This ...