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Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, a Spanish explorer, came to America, looking for gold.He never found any but he did come into what is now Kansas.
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The French explorer, Robert de La Salle claimed the land west of the Mississippi River for France. He named the territory Louisiana. It later became the states of Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Oklahoma and New Mexico
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This was called the Louisiansa Purchase.
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Meriweather Lewis and William Clark went through Kansas, in 1804, led by Sacagawea.
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George Catlin came to Kansas in 1835
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In 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed and allowed Kansas to become a territory.
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The Border Ruffians were people who believed in slavery. They wanted Kansas to have slaves. In 1856 Border Ruffians burned down a a hotel in the city of Lawrence, which was a Free-State town.They also burned the offices of 2 anti-slavery newspapers. A man named John Brown led a raid on a pro-slavery camp and killed 5 people. This is known as the Pottawatomie Massacre.
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In 1854, Kansas became a territory. This meant it could become a state. In 1861, Kansas became a state.
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In 1912, women in Kansas were finally given the right to vote in every election.
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In 1920, the airplane industry flourished. Jake Moellendick, E.M. Laird and William Burke made the firest coomercial airplane, called the Laird Swallow.
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In the 1930s, were the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. The Great Depression was when stock markets crashed and people lost all their money and some also lost their homes.
The Dust Bowl was when huge dust storms came and ruined crops. The Dust Bowl area included Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico. -
In 1951, terrible floods drove nearly 400,000 people out of their homes.
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The Supreme Court of the U.S. declared that African-Americans and white students could go to school together. They ruled out segregation.
